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Published in final edited form as: Neurotoxicology. 2009 Jan 21;30(3):338–349. doi: 10.1016/j.neuro.2009.01.005

Table 7.

Analyses of the relationship between 107-month IQ and alternative metrics based on 19 and 66 month recent postnatal hair Hg levels with and without THg by sex interaction.

19 and 66 month data
Hi/Low
AUC n =483 Brain Growth Weighting(using brain area) n =483
6/6 cuts n =300 5/7 cuts n =193 4/8 cuts n =99

Variable Coefficient (p-value) Coefficient (p-value) Coefficient (p-value) Coefficient (p-value) Coefficient (p-value)

Prenatal Mercury
−0.26 (0.053) −0.18 (0.35) −0.20 (0.42) −0.19 (0.066) −0.19 (0.074)
Postnatal Metric
−0.42 (0.75) −0.44 (0.81) --- −0.0001 (0.99) ---
Sex (male)
0.078 (0.95) 0.79 (0.62) −4.27 (0.14) 0.17 (0.85) −3.18 (0.085)
Postnatal Metric × Sex p-value
--- --- (0.012) --- (0.039)
Postnatal Slope:
Male --- --- 8.95 (0.0091) --- 0.28 (0.22)
Female --- --- −3.42 (0.37) --- −0.36 (0.10)
Family status
0.66 (0.59) 0.71 (0.67) 4.45 (0.057) 0.058 (0.95) 0.019 (0.98)
HELPS
0.023 (0.74) −0.0004 (0.90) 0.091 (0.42) 0.049 (0.36) 0.048 (0.37)
child med history
−0.098 (0.95) 0.90 (0.68) 0.035 (0.99) −0.21(0.87) −0.32 (0.80)
maternal age
0.21 (0.053) 0.15 (0.30) 0.60 (0.006) 0.17 (0.034) 0.18 (0.029)
HOME score
0.59 (< 0.001) 0.75 (< 0.001) 0.88 (0.002) 0.44 (<0.001) 0.44 (< 0.001)
Care giver IQ
0.13(0.006) 0.13 (0.048) 0.15 (0.082) 0.12 (<0.001) 0.12 (< 0.001)
SES
0.12 (0.066) 0.097 (0.24) 0.088 (0.44) 0.18 (<0.001) 0.18 (< 0.001)
Family Resource scale
0.029 (0.34) 0.052 (0.16) 0.035 (0.51) 0.018 (0.43) 0.016 (0.46)
Child age at testing
−0.55 (0.78) 0.57 (0.82) 3.62 (0.34) −0.69 (0.65) −0.44(.077)
Tester = 2
1.049 (0.41) 1.84 (0.27) 2.17 (0.37) 0.59 (0.55) 0.72 (0.46)
Tester = 3 1.79 (0.34) 3.76 (0.14) 1.11 (0.75) 0.91 (0.54) 1.13 (0.44)

SES = Socioeconomic status measured as the Hollingshead score at age 9 years

HOME = Home observation of

HELPS = Henderson early learning process scale