Nationwide, rates for oral HPV infections are 11.5% of men and 3.2% of women: 11 million men, compared with 3.2 million women, the researchers estimated. "It is also possible that men acquire oral HPV more readily than women," he said. All told, about 11.5% of study participants had an oral HPV infection. High-risk groupsMen who have had multiple sex partners, men who reported having sex with men, and men with genital HPV infections were found to have the highest rates of oral HPV, the study indicated. HPV infections overall and high-risk HPV oral infections in particular were "significantly associated" with cigarette and marijuana use, the researchers found.

Source: CNN October 16, 2017 21:11 UTC