Awareness of human papillomavirus in a cohort of nearly 70,000 women from four Nordic countries

Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica

Volumn 87, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1048-1054

  Nøhr, Bugge ^a   Munk, Christian ^a   Tryggvadottir, Laufey ^b   Sparén, Par ^d   Tran, Trung N ^d   Nygård, Mari ^e   Skare, Gry B ^e   Dasbach, Erik ^f   Liaw, Kai L ^f   Kjaer, Susanne K ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Denmark)

^b ICELANDIC CANCER SOCIETY   (Iceland)

^c Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^e CANCER REGISTRY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^f MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Cohort study; HPV awareness; HPV infection; HPV vaccination

Indexed keywords

CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; VACCINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONDOM; CONDYLOMA ACUMINATUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DENMARK; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HISTORY; HUMAN; ICELAND; LIFESTYLE; NORWAY; PAPILLOMA VIRUS; POPULATION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOM SAMPLE; RISK; SWEDEN; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PAPILLOMAVIRIDAE; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCANDINAVIA; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 53849093747     PISSN: 00016349     EISSN: 16000412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00016340802326373     Document Type: Article

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