Table 2.
Description of urinary DEHP metabolites comparisons between cases and controls, and among 6 phenotypic clusters and controls
| Urinary metabolites (µg/g creatinine) | Control | Case | Cluster A | Cluster B | |||
| Median (IQR) | Median (IQR) | Median (IQR) | Median (IQR) | ||||
| MEHP | 5.48 (6.77) | 8.74 (13.22)*** | 10.69 (10.40) | 7.95 (8.92) | |||
| MEHHP | 11.86 (11.34) | 20.63 (21.38)*** | 25.93 (16.60)** | 16.71 (13.44) | |||
| MEHP + MEHHP | 18.20 (15.46) | 30.73 (34.17)*** | 39.16 (35.26)** | 26.35 (24.63) | |||
| MEHHP/MEHP | 2.14 (2.20) | 2.49 (2.55) | 2.54 (3.82) | 2.46 (2.02) | |||
| Urinary metabolites (µg/g creatinine) | Cluster C | Cluster D | Cluster E | Cluster F | |||
| Median (IQR) | Median (IQR) | Median (IQR) | Median (IQR) | ||||
| MEHP | 11.42 (19.01)** | 104.75 (482.75)* | 10.71 (19.80) | 5.84 (10.79) | |||
| MEHHP | 20.70 (21.37)*** | 196.72 (893.00)*** | 20.34 (36.20) | 19.65 (16.99)*** | |||
| MEHP + MEHHP | 30.74 (58.29)*** | 301.47 (1375.64)*** | 36.88 (40.15) | 25.01 (26.89)** | |||
| MEHHP/MEHP | 2.44 (2.01) | 3.50 (2.78) | 1.93 (7.89) | 2.62 (2.26) | |||
| Urinary metabolites (µg/g creatinine) | P-valuea | P-valueb | |||||
| MEHP | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | |||||
| MEHHP | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | |||||
| MEHP + MEHHP | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | |||||
| MEHHP/MEHP | 0.097 | 0.563 |
a Tested by Mann–Whitney U test
b Tested by Kruskal–Wallis H test and Bonferroni correction
* P < 0.05; ** P < 0.01; *** P < 0.001