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. 2009 Oct 4;54(1):41–54. doi: 10.1093/annhyg/mep069

Table 4.

Summary of measurements in 46 spray paintersa stratified by paint booth type

Variable Booth type nb Nc Summary statistics
P-valuesd
GM GSD Range
Plasma HDA (μg) Downdraft 31 72 0.15 3.48 <0.02–2.85 0.0108
Semi-downdraft 10 21 0.35 3.53 <0.02–3.61
Crossdraft 6 15 0.26 2.79 0.03–0.83
Overall 46 108 0.29 3.53 <0.02–3.61
HDI adjusted inhalation (μg) Downdraft 31 72 0.05 9.35 <0.0002–5.91 0.0051
Semi-downdraft 10 21 0.05 10.5 0.001–1.70
Crossdraft 6 15 0.39 5.04 0.013–4.94
Overall 46 108 0.07 9.76 <0.0002–5.91
HDI unadjusted inhalation (μg) Downdraft 31 72 1.18 4.46 <0.02–59.1 <0.0001
Semi-downdraft 10 21 6.88 2.49 0.84–21.4
Crossdraft 6 15 3.33 4.80 0.13–49.4
Overall 46 108 1.92 4.84 <0.02–59.1
HDI dermal (μg) Downdraft 31 72 1.94 7.31 <0.10–1023 <0.0001
Semi-downdraft 10 21 28.8 8.82 0.24–440
Crossdraft 6 15 33.3 8.91 1.14–538
Overall 46 108 4.86 11.2 <0.10–1023
a

Among workers performing paint tasks on day of sample collection (N = 108). Multiple imputation (n = 10 imputed datasets) was used to impute plasma data below MDL.

b

Number of workers.

c

Number of samples.

d

P-value determined using Tukey–Kramer multiple comparisons testing.