Awareness that HPV is a risk factor for cervical cancer in Northeast Mexico.

weight gain and postpartum behaviors associated with weight change from early pregnancy to 1 y postpartum. Associations of excess weight gain during pregnancy with long-term maternal overweight and obesity: evidence from 21 y postpartum follow-up. Dear editor: Hereby, we send the results of a survey about the awareness that Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is a risk factor for the development of cervical cancer (CC) in a sample of women from the metropolitan area of Monterrey, Mexico (MMM). It is well known that chronic infection with HPV is largely associated with the development of CC and that screening with Pap smear allows the detection of women with high grade squamous intraepithelial lesions; however 1 partici