| Autor: |
Madhumita Nayak, Prasanta Purohit, Alliyatri Debta, Shalini Sinha, Siris Patel, Ojaswini Patel, Padmalaya Das, Sunanda Sahoo |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2020 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Al Ameen Journal of Medical Sciences, Vol 13, Iss 04, Pp 266-272 (2020) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
0974-1143 |
| Popis: |
Background: Worldwide, only few reports are there to explain the prevalence of bacterial vaginosis (BV) as well as the association of various factors with BV in postmenopausal women. Aims and Objectives: To study the prevalence of BV and to analyze the association of various factors with BV in postmenopausal women in the state of Odisha, India. Methods: During recruitment, all the women completed a questionnaire containing socio-demographic features, medical and gynecological problems. A speculum examination of the vagina was done and a vaginal secretion was collected using BD BBL swabs for Gram staining. Diagnosis of BV was carried out by using Nugent’s scoring method and a score of 4-10 was considered for abnormal or positive for BV. Results: A total of 209 postmenopausal women were recruited in this study with a median age of 54 years. As per the diagnostic criteria, the prevalence of BV was found to be 24.4%. The occurrence of BV was found to be associated with age of the women specially who were >55 years old (P=0.018), women with no formal education i.e. less than 5th standard (P=0.016), and women who were staying with 6 or more individuals in family (P |
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