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Table 1 Demographics and clinical characteristics of study population

From: Developing a predictive nomogram for colposcopists: a retrospective, multicenter study of cervical precancer identification in China

Characteristics

No. (%)

Training set

(n = 4117)

Internal validation set (n = 1737)

External validation set 1 (n = 472)

External validation set 2 (n = 422)

Age (years)

< 30

769 (18.7)

306 (17.6)

60 (12.7)

47 (11.1)

30–39

1525 (37.1)

676 (38.9)

191 (40.5)

184 (43.6)

40–49

1096 (26.6)

440 (25.4)

151 (32.0)

140 (33.2)

50–59

578 (14.0)

238 (13.7)

59 (12.5)

40 (9.5)

> 59

149 (3.6)

77 (4.4)

11 (2.3)

11 (2.6)

Gravidity

0

486 (11.8)

175 (10.1)

36 (7.6)

62 (14.7)

1–3

2863 (69.5)

1228 (70.7)

286 (60.6)

260 (61.6)

> 3

768 (18.7)

334 (19.2)

150 (31.8)

100 (23.7)

Parity

0

733 (17.8)

292 (16.8)

64 (13.6)

97 (23.0)

1–2

3053 (74.2)

1309 (75.4)

336 (71.1)

314 (74.4)

> 2

311 (8.0)

136 (7.8)

72 (15.3)

11 (2.6)

Menopause

No

3542 (86.0)

1456 (83.8)

408 (86.4)

365 (86.5)

Yes

575 (14.0)

281 (16.2)

64 (13.6)

57 (13.5)

Cytology results

NILM

1722 (41.8)

688 (39.6)

219 (46.4)

272 (64.5)

ASC-US

1218 (29.6)

550 (31.7)

124 (26.3)

87 (20.6)

LSIL

688 (16.7)

290 (16.7)

69 (14.6)

28 (6.6)

ASC-H

153 (3.7)

83 (4.7)

21 (4.4)

25 (5.9)

HSIL

336 (8.2)

126 (7.3)

39 (8.3)

10 (2.4)

HPV status

Negative

624 (15.2)

242 (13.9)

97 (20.6)

233 (55.2)

Non-16/18 hr-HPV

2084 (50.6)

878 (50.6)

245 (51.9)

140 (33.2)

HPV16/18

1409 (34.2)

617 (35.5)

130 (27.5)

49 (11.6)

Cervix visibility

Inadequate

1304 (31.7)

550 (31.7)

220 (46.6)

226 (53.6)

Adequate

2813 (68.3)

1187 (68.3)

252 (53.4)

196 (46.4)

TZ types

TZ1

1105 (26.8)

444 (25.6)

129 (27.3)

154 (36.5)

TZ2

1477 (35.9)

664 (38.2)

82 (17.4)

24 (5.7)

TZ3

1535 (37.3)

629 (36.2)

261 (55.3)

244 (57.8)

Colposcopic impression

Normal/benign

1062 (25.8)

447 (25.7)

180 (38.1)

142 (33.6)

Low-grade

2110 (51.2)

913 (52.6)

177 (37.5)

241 (57.2)

High-grade

945 (23.0)

377 (21.7)

115 (24.4)

39 (9.2)

Size of lesion area

< 1/3

1627 (39.5)

691 (39.8)

295 (62.5)

202 (47.9)

1/3 − 2/3

2214 (53.8)

923 (53.1)

161 (34.1)

187 (44.3)

> 2/3

276 (6.7)

123 (7.1)

16 (3.4)

33 (7.8)

Histology

Normal/benign

1485 (36.1)

598 (34.5)

188 (39.8)

246 (58.3)

LSIL

1578 (38.3)

725 (41.7)

152 (32.2)

127 (30.1)

HSIL

1018 (24.7)

400 (23.0)

122 (25.9)

49 (11.6)

Cancer

36 (0.9)

14 (0.8)

10 (2.1)

None

  1. Abbreviations: NILM, negative for intraepithelial lesion or malignancy; ASC-US, atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance; LSIL, low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion; ASC-H, atypical squamous cells which did not exclude high grade squamous intraepithelial lesion; HSIL, high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion; hr-HPV, high-risk human papillomavirus; TZ, transformation zone.