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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Nov 10.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Sci Technol. 2008 Oct 1;42(19):7330–7335. doi: 10.1021/es801273h

TABLE 1.

Year of Monitoring Predicts Σ8PAH

Σ8PAH a
β P
Ethnicity 0.004 0.919
frying/sautéing −0.039 0.319
heat onb 0.116 0.025
ETS exposurec 0.048 0.233
heating seasond 0.277 0.000
year of monitoring −0.269 0.000
a

Data were natural log-transformed to reduce variance and fulfill the distribution requirements of shown tests.

b

“Heat on” refers to heating system in use during monitoring.

c

Exposure during PAH monitoring.

d

“Heating season” refers to the time period between October 1st to May 31st according to NYC regulations; coding was 1 for heating season and 0 for rest of the year.