TY - JOUR
T1 - Bacterial Vaginosis and Behavioral Factors Associated with Incident Pelvic Inflammatory Disease in the Longitudinal Study of Vaginal Flora
AU - Turpin, Rodman
AU - Tuddenham, Susan
AU - He, Xin
AU - Klebanoff, Mark A.
AU - Ghanem, Khalil G.
AU - Brotman, Rebecca M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press for the Infectious Diseases Society of America. All rights reserved.
PY - 2021/8/15
Y1 - 2021/8/15
N2 - Background: Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) leads to long-term reproductive consequences for cisgender women. Bacterial vaginosis (BV) and behavioral factors may play a role in PID pathogenesis. We assessed associations between BV, behavioral factors, and incident PID. Methods: We analyzed participants (N = 2956) enrolled in the National Institutes of Health Longitudinal Study of Vaginal Flora, a cohort of nonpregnant cisgender women followed quarterly for 12 months. PID was defined by at least 1 of the following: cervical motion tenderness, uterine tenderness, or adnexal tenderness (160 cases). We tested associations between BV (measured using Nugent and Amsel criteria) and PID at the subsequent visit. Sociodemographic factors, sexual behaviors, and Chlamydia trachomatis (CT), untreated at baseline and concurrent with BV, were covariates in Cox proportional hazards models. Adjusting for the few Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Trichomonas vaginalis cases did not alter results. Results: In multivariable modeling, Nugent-BV (adjusted hazard ratio [aHR], 1.53 [95% confidence interval {CI}, 1.05-2.21]), symptomatic Amsel-BV (aHR, 2.15 [95% CI, 1.23-3.75]), and vaginal douching (aHR, 1.47 [95% CI, 1.03-2.09]) were associated with incident PID. Conclusions: BV was associated with incident PID in a large prospective cohort, controlling for behavioral factors and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Larger studies on how BV, STIs, behaviors, and host responses interactively affect PID risk are needed.
AB - Background: Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) leads to long-term reproductive consequences for cisgender women. Bacterial vaginosis (BV) and behavioral factors may play a role in PID pathogenesis. We assessed associations between BV, behavioral factors, and incident PID. Methods: We analyzed participants (N = 2956) enrolled in the National Institutes of Health Longitudinal Study of Vaginal Flora, a cohort of nonpregnant cisgender women followed quarterly for 12 months. PID was defined by at least 1 of the following: cervical motion tenderness, uterine tenderness, or adnexal tenderness (160 cases). We tested associations between BV (measured using Nugent and Amsel criteria) and PID at the subsequent visit. Sociodemographic factors, sexual behaviors, and Chlamydia trachomatis (CT), untreated at baseline and concurrent with BV, were covariates in Cox proportional hazards models. Adjusting for the few Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Trichomonas vaginalis cases did not alter results. Results: In multivariable modeling, Nugent-BV (adjusted hazard ratio [aHR], 1.53 [95% confidence interval {CI}, 1.05-2.21]), symptomatic Amsel-BV (aHR, 2.15 [95% CI, 1.23-3.75]), and vaginal douching (aHR, 1.47 [95% CI, 1.03-2.09]) were associated with incident PID. Conclusions: BV was associated with incident PID in a large prospective cohort, controlling for behavioral factors and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Larger studies on how BV, STIs, behaviors, and host responses interactively affect PID risk are needed.
KW - bacterial vaginosis
KW - cohort
KW - pelvic inflammatory disease
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U2 - 10.1093/infdis/jiab103
DO - 10.1093/infdis/jiab103
M3 - Article
C2 - 34396403
AN - SCOPUS:85114221181
SN - 0022-1899
VL - 224
SP - S137-S144
JO - Journal of Infectious Diseases
JF - Journal of Infectious Diseases
ER -