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. 2008 Jun 5;116(10):1407–1410. doi: 10.1289/ehp.11354

Table 4.

Levels and associations by location and feeding in 4-year-old children.

Location
Feeding
Measure Flix Other towns Breast-feeding Formula feeding
No. 29 23 41 9
Level [median (interquartile range)]
 Total porphyrins 8.1 (3.8–13.7) 4.1 (3.0–13.7) 7.3 (3.6–13.7) 4.6 (2.5–8.4)
 HCB (ng/mL) 1.34 (0.92–1.90) 0.79 (0.0–1.11) 1.04 (0.78–1.90) 1.15 (0.00–1.55)
p,p′-DDE (ng/mL) 0.77 (0.52–1.32) 0.83 (0.37–1.37) 0.81 (0.56–1.32) 0.30 (0.25–1.36)
Coefficienta
 HCB 0.11 (0.31) 0.21 (0.13) 0.22 (0.19) 0.18 (0.16)
p,p′-DDE 0.36 (0.19) 0.60 (0.23)* 0.40 (0.18)* 0.86 (0.32)*
a

Change in total porphyrins (μmol/mol creatinine) per unit increase of organochlorine concentration in serum of 4-year-old children, obtained from separate linear regression models.

*

p < 0.05.