Table 3.

Simple correlation coefficients between newborn size and dioxin isomers in maternal breast milk among 75 Japanese mother–infant pairs

PCDDs/DFs in milk	Birth size
	Length	Weight	Chest	Head	Gestational weeks
2,3,7,8-TCDD	−0.107	−0.074	0.069	−0.300**	−0.058
1,2,3,7,8-PeCDD	−0.195	0.027	0.153	−0.115	0.021
1,2,3,4,7,8-HxCDD	−0.132	0.062	0.153	−0.020	0.081
1,2,3,6,7,8-HxCDD	−0.253*	−0.069	0.085	−0.180	−0.054
1,2,3,7,8,9-HxCDD	−0.141	0.025	0.128	−0.048	0.024
1,2,3,4,6,7,8-HxCDD	−0.141	0.025	0.128	−0.048	0.024
OCDD	−0.064	0.045	0.163	−0.167	0.090
2,3,7,8-TCDF	0.161	0.173	0.176	0.088	−0.001
1,2,3,7,8-PeCDF	−0.011	−0.044	0.102	−0.082	0.073
2,3,4,7,8-PeCDF	−0.307**	−0.110	0.013	−0.185	−0.088
1,2,3,4,7,8-HxCDF	−0.094	−0.016	0.081	−0.155	0.051
1,2,3,6,7,8-HxCDF	−0.151	−0.091	0.067	−0.157	0.105
2,3,4,6,7,8-HxCDF	−0.244*	−0.098	0.082	−0.158	0.090
1,2,3,7,8,9-HxCDF	0.238*	−0.001	0.008	0.125	0.025
1,2,3,4,6,7,8-HxCDF	0.120	0.157	0.218	0.005	0.103
1,2,3,4,7,8,9-HxCDF	−0.278**	0.145	0.086	0.159	0.207
OCDF	0.170	0.027	−0.094	−0.051	0.082
PCDDs-TEQ	−0.227	−0.030	0.124	−0.170	−0.011
PCDFs-TEQ	−0.276*	0.095	0.019	0.174	−0.066
PCDDs/DFs-TEQ	−0.255*	−0.056	0.081	−0.181	−0.043

*P < 0.05, **P < 0.01 by Spearman’s rho test