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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Res. 2021 Jul 31;203:111712. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2021.111712

Table 3.

Pairwise correlations between environmental chemicals in child and maternal serum calculated using Spearman’s Rho.

Child exposures
Maternal exposures
PFHxS PFHpS PFOS PFOA PFNA PFDA PFUnDA ΣPCB Mercury PFHxS PFOS PFOA PFNA PFDA ΣPCB Mercury

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