Table 2.
Demographic and questionnaires data, and classes of pesticides detected in hair samples from pemphigus vulgaris (PV) (n = 32), Pemphigus Foliaceus (PF) (n = 43), and Control (C) (n = 67) groups
| Gender | Disease onset to hair sample collection (years) | Age | Profession | Questionnaires |
Classes of pesticides (pg/mL)a |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Residence | Pesticide | Organochlorines |
Organophosphates |
Other | |||||||||||||
| Exposure | Aldrin | BHC | DDT | Endrin | Chlorpyriphos | Diazinon | Dichlorvos | Malathion | Methyl parathion | Parathion | |||||||
| PV1 | F | 4 | 53 | Housemaid | Urban | NA | 9.2 | ||||||||||
| PV2 | M | 5 | 72 | Beekeeper | Rural | Yes | <LOQ | <LOQ | |||||||||
| PF1 | M | 13 | 58 | Peasant | Urban | Yes | <LOQ | 8.3 | |||||||||
| PF2 | F | 8 | 32 | Peasant | Rural | Yes | 12.6 | <LOQ | 6.4 | ||||||||
| PF3 | F | 4 | 72 | Housemaid | Rural | No | 5.8 | ||||||||||
| PF4 | M | 19 | 49 | Peasant | Urban | Yes | 12.2 | 2.1 | |||||||||
| PF5 | M | 32 | 73 | Peasant | Rural | Yes | <LOQ | <LOQ | Diuron | ||||||||
| PF6 | F | 18 | 52 | Peasant | Rural | Yes | <LOQ | <LOQ | 7.6 | ||||||||
| PF7 | F | 6 | 51 | Housemaid | Rural | Yes | 8.3 | ||||||||||
| PF8 | F | 9 | 39 | Peasant | Urban | Yes | 15.6 | ||||||||||
| PF9 | F | 0 | 39 | Peasant | Urban | Yes | 3.5 | 9.1 | 12.1 | <LOQ | |||||||
| PF10 | F | 0 | 59 | Housemaid | Rural | Yes | <LOQ | ||||||||||
| PF11 | F | 49 | 58 | NA | Rural | No | 7.4 | ||||||||||
| C1 | M | NA | 58 | Tapestry | Urban | No | 8.4 | 5.5 | |||||||||
| C2 | F | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 7.7 | 9.1 | |||||||||
| C3 | F | NA | NA | Housemaid | NA | NA | <LOQ | ||||||||||
| C4 | M | NA | 47 | NA | NA | NA | 8.2 | ||||||||||
| C5 | F | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | <LOQ | 7.2 | |||||||||
| C6 | M | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 6.3 | ||||||||||
| C7 | F | NA | 54 | Dressmaker | Urban | Yes | <LOQ | ||||||||||
| C8 | F | NA | 53 | Housemaid | Urban | No | <LOQ | ||||||||||
NA, Not Available; LOQ, Limit of Quantification; BHC, Benzene Hexachloride; DDT, Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane.
a
Dimethoate, Terbufos, Disulfoton, Heptachlor, Fenitrothion, Fenthion, Methidathion, Endosulfan, Ethion, Hexazinone, and Ketoendrin were not detected.