The Prevalence of the Most Important Risk Factors Associated with Cervical Cancer.

INTRODUCTION/ GOALS: The aim of our study was to point out the importance of the risk factors associated with cervical cancer in an asymptomatic population. METHODOLOGY: The study included 860 patients in the period from January 2017 to January 2018, which covered more than 80% of the targeted population in this municipality over the one year study, according to the National Program for Cervical Cancer Prevention in Montenegro. RESULTS: The incidence of PAP III results was statistically significantly higher in women between 40 and 45 years of age compared to other age groups (p< 0.001). PAP III was statistically significant high in subjects who had vaginal delivery (p<0.001), and was statistically significantly more frequent in women with more than two children (p = 0.011), while all the subjects with positive PAP results III had children. PAP III results were statistically significantly higher in subjects who had sexual intercourse before the age of 18 (p< 0.001), and were statistically significantly more frequent in subjects who were on oral contraceptives (p< 0.001). PAP III test results also show a significant difference related to cigarette consumption (p< 0.001). PAP III results were significantly more frequent in subjects with grade III vaginal cleanliness compared to grade II vaginal cleanliness (p<0.001). CONCLUSION: The number of patients with cervical cancer in Montenegro increased in the period from June 2016 to June 2017, compared to previous years, even though the National Program for Cervical Cancer Prevention that aimed to reduce the number of such patients has been in use in Montenegro since 2011.

Assessments of the socioeconomic status and diet on the prevalence of dental caries at school children in central bosnian canton.

AIM: The main aim of this research was to determine the influence of socioeconomic status and residence/living conditions on the status of oral health (e.g. health of mouth and teeth) in primary school students residing in Canton Central Bosnia. METHODS: The study was designed as a cross-sectional study. Our research included two-phased stratified random sample of 804 participants. The quantitative research method and newly designed survey instrument were utilized in order to provide data on the oral health of the examined children. The alternate hypothesis foresaw that "there were significant statistical differences between the levels of incidence of dental caries in comparison to the incidence in children of different socioeconomic status. RESULTS: The Chi square () of 22.814, degree of freedom (Df) = 8, coefficient of contingency of 0.163 and T-test (Stat) of-0.18334 showed that there were no significant statistical differences at p < 0.05 level between the primary school children from urban and rural areas. The obtained results showed that the caries indexes in elementary schools in Central Bosnia Canton were fairly uniform. Research showed that there were a difference in the attitudes towards a regular dental visits, which correlated with social-educational structure of the children's' families. CONCLUSION: According to the results, we can see that the socioeconomic status of patients had an effect on the occurrence of dental caries and oral hygiene in patients in relation to the rural and urban areas, because we can see that by the number of respondents, the greater unemployment of parents in both, rural and urban areas, caused a host of other factors, which were, either, directly or indirectly connected with the development of caries.