Correction to: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-23947-6, published online 04 April 2018
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Ueda, Y., Yagi, A., Nakayama, T. et al. Author Correction: Dynamic changes in Japan’s prevalence of abnormal findings in cervical cytology depending on birth year. Sci Rep 8, 13384 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-31652-7
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In Japan, previous studies demonstrated that the rate of abnormal findings in cervical cytology in women aged 20–24 with HPV vaccination was significantly higher than that in those without HPV vaccination11,12,
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Preventive effect of human papillomavirus vaccination on the development of uterine cervical lesions in young Japanese women.
Tanaka H, et al. J Obstet Gynaecol Res. 2017.
Overall, the prevalence of abnormal cytology results was significantly lower in women aged 20-24 years who had received an HPV vaccination than in those who had not (P = 0.011).