Prevalencia de virus de papiloma humano en mujeres de 20 a 50 años de edad atendidas en el Hospital Básico de Durán en el periodo 2021 al 2023.

Abstract

ntroduction: The human papillomavirus (HPV) is recognized by its cutaneous and clinical manifestations in the genital tract these are warts the most characteristic and proceeds as a causative agent of cervical cancer with more than 200 types of HPV and of them several carcinogenic genotypes. the national system does not have a program for the diagnosis of this virus so it constitutes a problem by not detecting timely and highlights the risk of evolving into malignancy. Objectives: This study aims to determine the prevalence of human papillomavirus in women of a certain age range in terms of risk factors and impact of HPV infection. Materials and methods: The present study is relational and retrospective based on the medical records of the Hospital Básico de Duran of the patients who had undergone pap sampling and proceeded to the exhaustive review of each medical record of the AS400 program so that according to the established inclusion criteria and according to the designated variables, data tabulation could be performed using the digital platform Excel 2019 and in the case of data tabulation. Discussion: the high prevalence of infected women between the comparative years 2021 to 2023 shows an increase. Conclusions: A higher prevalence of infection was observed in a certain age range which is 41 to 50 years where married women have a higher incidence of being carriers of the virus and it was also observed that the annual control of HPV disease shows that it is favorable because it does not lead to malignancy.