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. 2006 May 25;63(9):624–631. doi: 10.1136/oem.2005.023226

Table 5 Characteristics of urine samples from car body repair shop workers per time interval (0 = midnight before working day); fraction of samples above LOD, OR of being above the LOD versus 0–8 am working day (corrected for repeated measurements), and concentration range and median in samples above LOD.

Time interval Fraction above LOD OR (95% CI) detectable samples Median level (range) detects (μg HDA/g C)
0–8 am 6/38 13.1 (6.8–50.2)
8–12 am 7/41 1.10 (0.85–1.44) 7.3 (2.3–67.8)
0–3 pm 4/35 1.06 (0.59–1.91) 21.5 (2.7–150.2)
3–6 pm 7/30 2.13 (1.07–4.22) 18.0 (1.9–89.9)
6–12 pm 12/45 2.00 (0.91–4.40) 20.6 (1.9–61.7)
0–8 am next day 12/46 2.04 (0.91–4.59) 8.1 (3.2–65.6)