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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Oct 23.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Int. 2023 Sep 7;180:108194. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2023.108194

Table 2.

Detection frequencies, limits of detection, and distributions of pregnancy-average OPE biomarker concentrations (ng/mL), and intraclass correlation coefficients in the LIFECODES Fetal Growth Study (n = 900, 2007–2018)

Abbreviation Chemical Name n (%) > LODa LOD GM Percentiles ICCb
5th 25th 50th 75th 95th
BCEP Bis(2-chloroethyl) phosphate 812 (90) 0.10 0.32 0.09 0.17 0.28 0.54 1.61 0.50
BCIPP Bis(1-chloro-2-propyl) phosphate 577 (64) 0.10 0.17 0.05 0.09 0.14 0.24 1.02 0.51
BDCIPP Bis(1,3-dichloro-2-propyl) phosphate 892 (99) 0.10 0.75 0.20 0.39 0.71 1.34 3.46 0.50
DNBP Di-n-butyl phosphate 568 (63) 0.10 0.11 0.05 0.08 0.11 0.15 0.26 0.27
DPHP Diphenyl phosphate 900 (100) 0.10 1.05 0.38 0.65 1.00 1.60 3.42 0.33
iPPPP 2-((isopropyl)phenyl)phenyl phosphate 135 (15) 0.05 - - - - - - -
tBPPP 4-((tert-butyl)phenyl)phenyl phosphate 350 (39) 0.05 - - - - - - -
TBBAc 2,3,4,5-tetrabromobenzoic acid 58 (6) 0.05 - - - - - - -
a

Abbreviations: GM = geometric mean; ICC = intraclass correlation coefficient; LOD = limit of detection; OPE = organophosphate ester. The numbers (%) correspond to the of participants for each biomarker with at least one detectable concentration. Percentages are rounded to the nearest integer.

b

Computed using a survey-weighted linear mixed model with random intercept for each participant.

c

TBBA is a biomarker of exposure to 2-ethylhexyl-2,3,4,5-tetrabromobenzoate.