Certain strains of HPV are considered high risk because they can increase the probability of vaginal vulvar penile mouth throat and cervical cancers. The study showed that women with high-risk HPV were 22 per cent more likely than uninfected women to develop cardiovascular disease. In addition women with obesity were nearly two-thirds more likely to develop CVD and those with metabolic syndrome and high-risk HPV were nearly twice as likely to develop the disorder showed results published in Circulation Research: Journal of the American Heart Association. Conversely slightly more than 7 per cent of the women without CVD developed high-risk