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Published in final edited form as: J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2020 Jan 27;31(2):366–376. doi: 10.1038/s41370-019-0192-8

Table 3.

Summary table of changes in hematological measures per unit increase of log blood VOC concentration.

Hematological parameter VOC Not smoke exposed
Smoke exposed
S Beta Beta (95% CI) P value S Beta Beta (95% CI) P value
Eosinophils Benzene   0.018   0.006 (−0.003, 0.015) 0.2118 −0.020 −0.005 (−0.018, 0.009)   0.4944
Ethylbenzene   0.002    0 (−0.007, 0.008) 0.9051 −0.032 −0.009 (−0.021, 0.003)   0.1507
m-/p-Xylene   0.010   0.002 (−0.004, 0.008) 0.5421 −0.041 −0.012 (−0.023,−0.001)   0.0403
o-Xylene   0.001    0 (−0.007, 0.007) 0.9617 −0.025 −0.008 (−0.025, 0.01)   0.3736
1,4-Dichlorobenzene   0.008   0.001 (−0.003, 0.004) 0.6293   0.015   0.002 (−0.008, 0.012)   0.6431
Styrene   0.010   0.004 (−0.008, 0.016) 0.4909   0.000    0 (−0.015, 0.015)   0.9857
Toluene   0.012   0.002 (−0.004, 0.008) 0.4785 −0.031 −0.008 (−0.022, 0.006)   0.2452
Hematocrit Benzene   0.033   0.277 (−0.001, 0.555) 0.0505   0.109   0.458 (0.182, 0.734)   0.0017
Ethylbenzene   0.028   0.159 (−0.06, 0.378) 0.1506   0.073  0.38 (0.126, 0.633)   0.0041
m-/p-Xylene   0.038   0.182 (−0.01, 0.373) 0.0622   0.092    0.5 (0.254, 0.747)   0.0002
o-Xylene   0.014   0.077 (−0.153, 0.308) 0.5034   0.073   0.414 (0.106, 0.723)   0.0095
1,4-Dichlorobenzene   0.004   0.011 (−0.086, 0.108) 0.8152   0.008   0.022 (−0.12, 0.163)   0.7577
Styrene   0.024   0.233 (−0.142, 0.608) 0.2167   0.076   0.433 (0.023, 0.843)   0.0391
Toluene   0.036   0.174 (−0.017, 0.365) 0.0727   0.087   0.405 (0.094, 0.716)   0.0119
Hemoglobin Benzene   0.026   0.074 (0.001, 0.148) 0.0468   0.125   0.185 (0.095, 0.275)   0.0001
Ethylbenzene   0.016   0.033 (−0.034, 0.1) 0.3245   0.087   0.157 (0.066, 0.249)   0.0011
m-/p-Xylene   0.012  0.02 (−0.038, 0.077) 0.4925   0.088   0.168 (0.077, 0.259)   0.0005
o-Xylene   0.001   0.001 (−0.068, 0.071) 0.9742   0.072   0.142 (0.038, 0.247)   0.0083
1,4-Dichlorobenzene −0.017 −0.016 (−0.047, 0.016) 0.3320 −0.017 −0.017 (−0.063, 0.029)   0.4652
Styrene   0.014   0.047 (−0.034, 0.128) 0.2510   0.089   0.179 (0.042, 0.316)   0.0115
Toluene   0.017   0.029 (−0.03, 0.088) 0.3288   0.112   0.183 (0.068, 0.299)   0.0025
Platelet count Benzene   0.047   6.787 (1.35, 12.224) 0.0155   0.072   5.437 (0.567, 10.307)   0.0294
Ethylbenzene   0.050   4.933 (1.69, 8.177) 0.0037   0.030   2.819 (−3.886, 9.523)   0.4020
m-/p-Xylene   0.040   3.271 (0.158, 6.384) 0.0399   0.039   3.863 (−3.038, 10.764)   0.2658
o-Xylene   0.030   2.843 (−0.562, 6.248) 0.0996   0.047   4.724 (−2.255, 11.704)   0.1798
1,4-Dichlorobenzene   0.032   1.485 (−0.135, 3.105) 0.0715   0.047   2.357 (−0.727, 5.441)   0.1309
Styrene −0.011 −1.843 (−11.252, 7.567) 0.6948   0.044   4.366 (−3.352, 12.083)   0.2603
Toluene   0.070   5.729 (2.281, 9.177) 0.0017   0.040   3.386 (−3.421, 10.192)   0.3218
Red cell count Benzene   0.014   0.013 (−0.014, 0.041) 0.3287   0.004   0.002 (−0.031, 0.035)   0.9127
Ethylbenzene −0.001 −0.001 (−0.021, 0.02) 0.9342 −0.001    0 (−0.031, 0.031)   0.9747
m-/p-Xylene   0.002   0.001 (−0.019, 0.022) 0.8995   0.021   0.014 (−0.013, 0.04)   0.3050
o-Xylene −0.008 −0.005 (−0.027, 0.017) 0.6512   0.014  0.01 (−0.023, 0.042)   0.5441
1,4-Dichlorobenzene   0.008   0.003 (−0.007, 0.012) 0.5976 −0.005 −0.002 (−0.018, 0.015)   0.8395
Styrene   0.012   0.014 (−0.031, 0.058) 0.5417 −0.005 −0.004 (−0.05, 0.043)   0.8793
Toluene   0.009   0.005 (−0.017, 0.026) 0.6517 −0.005 −0.003 (−0.042, 0.037)   0.8954
White cell count Benzene   0.016   0.067 (−0.069, 0.203) 0.3248   0.202   0.518 (0.377, 0.659) <0.0001
Ethylbenzene   0.024   0.069 (−0.017, 0.154) 0.1116   0.165   0.525 (0.31, 0.739) <0.0001
m-/p-Xylene   0.011   0.026 (−0.053, 0.106) 0.5064   0.130   0.436 (0.228, 0.643)   0.0001
o-Xylene   0.018   0.053 (−0.045, 0.15) 0.2815   0.111   0.384 (0.142, 0.626)   0.0025
1,4-Dichlorobenzene   0.004   0.005 (−0.038, 0.048) 0.8153 −0.006   −0.01 (−0.094, 0.075)   0.8180
Styrene   0.010  0.05 (−0.083, 0.183) 0.4505   0.206   0.695 (0.484, 0.907) <0.0001
Toluene −0.018 −0.046 (−0.133, 0.042) 0.3013   0.186   0.543 (0.385, 0.7) <0.0001