Risk factors of genital-urinary infection in women

G. V. Grinenko; Гриненко Г. В.; K. V. Shalepo; Шалепо К. В.; А. M. Savitcheva; Савичева А. М.; Е. K. Ailamazyan; Айламазян Э. К.; Е. V. Chipitsyna; Шипицина Е. В.; M. Domeika; Домейка М.

doi:10.17816/JOWD88857

Risk factors of genital-urinary infection in women

Authors: Grinenko G.V.¹, Shalepo K.V.², Savitcheva А.M.², Ailamazyan Е.K.², Chipitsyna Е.V.³, Domeika M.³
Affiliations:
1. State Medical University named after acad. I.P. Pavlova
2. Research Institute of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductology named after D.O. Ott
3. Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control
Issue: Vol 52, No 2 (2003)
Pages: 95-100
Section: Original study articles
URL: https://bakhtiniada.ru/jowd/article/view/88857
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17816/JOWD88857
ID: 88857

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The article represents the data of screening carried out on 905 women attended the outpatient departments of gynecologic clinics of Saint Petersburg and Leningrad region.

Infectious diseases of genital-urinary system were diagnosed in 65.5% of the women, 53.5% having asymptomatic course, which must be important in epidemiological respect. Risk factors and characteristic symptoms of the diseases were taken into account while analyzing the questionnaires. The valuable risk factors were young age, early debut of sexual intercourse and occasional sexual contacts, the history of STI as well as the pregnancy.