Table 3.
Molecular weight | Mean | Selected Percentiles | ||||||||
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Min. | 10th | 25th | 50th | 75th | 90th | 95th | Max. | |||
HCB | 285 | 0.39 | 0.13 | 0.22 | 0.29 | 0.37 | 0.49 | 0.55 | 0.60 | 0.69 |
p,p'-DDE | 318 | 0.32 | 0.03 | 0.18 | 0.24 | 0.32 | 0.41 | 0.46 | 0.49 | 0.55 |
PCB 118 | 326 | 0.32 | 0.06 | 0.18 | 0.22 | 0.30 | 0.39 | 0.46 | 0.48 | 1.38* |
p,p'-DDT | 355 | 0.22 | 0.02 | 0.11 | 0.14 | 0.22 | 0.27 | 0.32 | 0.36 | 0.47 |
PCB 138 | 361 | 0.31 | 0.04 | 0.17 | 0.24 | 0.30 | 0.37 | 0.43 | 0.51 | 0.99* |
PCB 153 | 361 | 0.27 | 0.03 | 0.14 | 0.20 | 0.25 | 0.34 | 0.39 | 0.41 | 0.79* |
PCB 180 | 395 | 0.25 | 0.02 | 0.12 | 0.18 | 0.25 | 0.31 | 0.40 | 0.41 | 0.94* |
Oxychlordane | 426 | 0.24 | 0.06 | 0.12 | 0.17 | 0.24 | 0.29 | 0.35 | 0.37 | 0.52 |
Trans-nonachlor | 444 | 0.21 | 0.05 | 0.10 | 0.16 | 0.20 | 0.25 | 0.29 | 0.32 | 0.71* |
Mirex | 546 | 0.24 | 0.06 | 0.11 | 0.17 | 0.22 | 0.30 | 0.39 | 0.42 | 0.54 |
ΣPCB | 0.27 | 0.06 | 0.14 | 0.19 | 0.26 | 0.33 | 0.38 | 0.42 | 0.97* |
*One woman was consistently an outlier for high ff:serum ratio for PCBs and trans-nonachlor. This woman also had the highest ratio for oxychlordane.