Incidence of oncogenic HPV infection in women with and without mental illness: A population-based cohort study in Sweden.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Women with mental illness experience an increased risk of cervical cancer. The excess risk is partly due to low participation in cervical screening; however, it remains unknown whether it is also attributable to an increased risk of infection with human papillomavirus (HPV). We aimed to examine whether women with mental illness had an increased infection rate of HPV compared to women without mental illness.

Methods and findings

Using a cohort design, we analyzed all 337,116 women aged 30 to 64 and living in Stockholm, who had a negative test result of 14 high-risk HPV subtypes in HPV-based screening, during August 2014 to December 2019. We defined women as exposed to mental illness if they had a specialist diagnosis of mental disorder or had a filled prescription

SUBMITTER: Herweijer E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11259452 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature