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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Apr 29.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Int. 2025 Apr 6;198:109433. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2025.109433

Table 3.

Associations between maternal plasma PFAS levels after delivery and inversely normalized measles VARscore during early childhood in 348 post-vaccination children, stratified by preterm status.

PFAS Term Birth (N = 288) Preterm Birth (N = 60) P for interaction
Log2 transformed Beta ± SE P Beta ± SE P PFAS × Preterm
Me-PFOSA-AcOH −0.07 ± 0.04 0.095 −0.13 ± 0.09 0.136 0.316
PFDeA 0.08 ± 0.05 0.114 −0.24 ± 0.12 0.042 0.054
PFHpS −0.07 ± 0.05 0.231 −0.21 ± 0.09 0.028 0.189
PFHxS −0.09 ± 0.04 0.032 −0.15 ± 0.11 0.175 0.637
PFNA 0.08 ± 0.07 0.233 −0.08 ± 0.16 0.620 0.703
PFOA −0.09 ± 0.06 0.163 −0.09 ± 0.10 0.374 0.829
PFOS −0.05 ± 0.06 0.390 −0.34 ± 0.13 0.010 0.033
PFUnA 0.02 ± 0.04 0.684 −0.13 ± 0.08 0.146 0.256
PFAS burden score −0.02 ± 0.09 0.811 −0.33 ± 0.20 0.097 0.243

Adjusted for maternal race and ethnicity, maternal age at delivery, maternal smoking during pregnancy, delivery type, sex, breastfeeding pattern and years since last vaccination.