Table 4.
Location
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Feeding
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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)* |
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.