Study In Nordic Countries Shows Increasing Burden Of Genital Warts Reflecting Recent HPA Data For The UK

A study of nearly 70,000 women aged 18-45 years from four Nordic countries, reveals at least one in ten women* reported having had at least one episode of clinically diagnosed genital warts. The proportions were 9.5%** in Norway, 10.1%*** in Denmark, 11.3%**** in Sweden and 12.0%***** in Iceland. The results published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases 1 also indicate an increasing occurrence of genital warts in young women. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses on December 15th, 2007