[dangerdoc]

I can’t find a link back to the original article.

He does state that the end point is heart disease not heart attack or stroke. He also says that the results were stratified for other common causes of heart disease. What those statements mean remains a mystery.

[Tax-chick]

The women used vaginal swabs to provide specimens for HPV testing and reported whether they had heart disease, which was defined in this study as ever having suffered a heart attack or stroke.

From the article. Of course, the writer on this article could just plain have it wrong.

Anyhow, infections are bad ;-).