Dietary Vitamin K Intake and HPV-Infection Status Among American Women: A Secondary Analysis From National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Data From 2003 to 2016

• Main Authors: Yinhui Jiang (Author), Shu Xu (Author), Jinzhi Lan (Author), Jinjuan Zhang (Author), Tengxiang Chen (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2022-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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• Notes: 1661-8564; 10.3389/ijph.2022.1604616
• Keywords: data analysis; dietary vitamin K intake; human papillomavirus (HPV); HPV-infection; HPV-subtypes; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270
• Source: International Journal of Public Health, Vol 67 (2022)

Objective: Cervical cancer is a serious potential risk to women's health, and is closely related to persistent HPV infection. Vitamin K mainly existed in green vegetables, fruit, and dairy products. This research aims to observe the association between vitamin K and HPV-infection.Methods: 13,447 participants from the NHANES were selected. Dietary vitamin K intake was used as the objective independent variable and continuous variable, HPV-infection status was used as the outcome variable, and characteristics of selected participants were used as the covariates.Results: There was a nonlinearity between vitamin K intake and HPV-infection, and the inflection point is 3.81 of log2 vitamin K intake. In a range of 0-3.81, Each one-unit increase in log2 vitamin K intake was associated with a 43% reduction in the risk of HPV infection. When log2 vitamin K intake excess of 3.81, the risk of HPV infection did not continue to decline. The HPV-subtype was not associated with vitamin K intake.Conclusion: There is a nonlinearity between vitamin K intake and HPV-infection status. But HPV-subtype was not associated with vitamin K intake.