Table 3.
Pairwise correlations between environmental chemicals in child and maternal serum calculated using Spearman’s Rho.
| Child exposures |
Maternal exposures |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PFHxS | PFHpS | PFOS | PFOA | PFNA | PFDA | PFUnDA | ΣPCB | Mercury | PFHxS | PFOS | PFOA | PFNA | PFDA | ΣPCB | Mercury | |
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| Child exposures | ||||||||||||||||
| PFHxS | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||
| PFHpS | 0.50 | 1.00 | ||||||||||||||
| PFOS | 0.82 | 0.55 | 1.00 | |||||||||||||
| PFOA | 0.38 | 0.08 | 0.44 | 1.00 | ||||||||||||
| PFNA | 0.78 | 0.52 | 0.86 | 0.55 | 1.00 | |||||||||||
| PFDA | 0.65 | −0.02 | 0.70 | 0.53 | 0.72 | 1.00 | ||||||||||
| PFUnDA | 0.70 | 0.43 | 0.83 | 0.34 | 0.82 | 0.74 | 1.00 | |||||||||
| ΣPCB | 0.56 | 0.34 | 0.48 | 0.26 | 0.44 | 0.36 | 0.44 | 1.00 | ||||||||
| Mercury | 0.53 | 0.23 | 0.59 | 0.15 | 0.57 | 0.58 | 0.70 | 0.34 | 1.00 | |||||||
| Maternal exposures | ||||||||||||||||
| PFHxS | 0.30 | 0.20 | 0.08 | −0.15 | 0.06 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.08 | 1.00 | ||||||
| PFOS | 0.24 | 0.15 | 0.16 | −0.12 | 0.10 | 0.06 | 0.08 | 0.12 | 0.13 | 0.62 | 1.00 | |||||
| PFOA | 0.08 | −0.02 | 0.15 | −0.01 | 0.06 | 0.10 | 0.08 | −0.02 | 0.04 | 0.36 | 0.57 | 1.00 | ||||
| PFNA | 0.42 | 0.22 | 0.40 | 0.25 | 0.43 | 0.45 | 0.44 | 0.48 | 0.46 | 0.35 | 0.55 | 0.28 | 1.00 | |||
| PFDA | 0.47 | 0.30 | 0.48 | 0.28 | 0.50 | 0.51 | 0.51 | 0.49 | 0.48 | 0.31 | 0.54 | 0.21 | 0.92 | 1.00 | ||
| ΣPCB | 0.29 | 0.18 | 0.15 | 0.13 | 0.22 | 0.23 | 0.22 | 0.41 | 0.22 | 0.46 | 0.40 | 0.05 | 0.54 | 0.55 | 1.00 | |
| Mercury | 0.40 | 0.27 | 0.38 | 0.29 | 0.42 | 0.43 | 0.43 | 0.38 | 0.47 | 0.24 | 0.37 | 0.00 | 0.59 | 0.64 | 0.51 | 1.00 |