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Table 1 Baseline characteristics by treatment group

From: Focused ultrasound versus the loop electrosurgical excision procedure to treat women with cervical high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions under 40: a retrospective study

  

FUS(n = 101)

LEEP(n = 124)

U/X2

P

Age

Median (lower quartile, upper quartile)

26.91(24.00,31.00)

34.25(32.00,37.00)

U = 9.610

0.000

 

range

18–38

21–40

  

Educational background

<University

31(30.69%)

47(37.90%)

1.623

0.203

 

≥University

70(69.31%)

77(62.10%)

  

Contraception

Condom

76(75.25%)

72(58.06%)

11.999

0.002

 

Others*

10(9.90%)

32(25.81%)

  
 

None

15(14.85%)

20(16.13%)

  

Lifetime sexual partners

1–2

69(68.32%)

106(85.48%)

13.483

0.000

 

≥ 3

32(31.68%)

18(14.52%)

  

Parity

0

73(72.28%)

17(13.71%)

119.226

0.000

 

1

26(25.74%)

74(59.68%)

  
 

≥ 2

2(1.98%)

33(26.62%)

  

HPV status

HPV16/18 infection

50(49.51%)

53(42.74%)

3.435

0.179

 

Non-HPV16/18 infection

47(46.53%)

69(55.65%)

  
 

Negative

0(0.00%)

0(0.00%)

  
 

Unknown

4(3.96%)

2(1.61%)

  
  1. *Others include intrauterine device, contraceptives, subdermal arm implant, tubal ligation and coitus interruptus