Table 3.
Mean and percentiles for DEHP and DBP metabolite concentration in prenatal urine by sex
| Metabolite (ng/mL) | Boys (N = 74)a |
Girls (N = 71)a |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phthalate | Mean | 25th | 50th | 75th | % > LOD | Mean | 25th | 50th | 75th | % > LOD | |
| DEHP | MEHP | 5.2 | 1.4 | 2.9 | 6.2 | 78.3 | 8.7 | 1.2 | 4.3 | 11.3 | 77.4 |
| MEHHP | 16.0 | 5.2 | 9.8 | 17.3 | 98.6 | 18.3 | 6.3 | 12.1 | 21.5 | 98.5 | |
| MEOHP | 14.3 | 4.7 | 9.0 | 17.9 | 94.5 | 15.5 | 5.4 | 10.8 | 20.7 | 97.1 | |
| ΣDEHP | 35.6 | 11.7 | 22.6 | 40.3 | 42.5 | 16.0 | 28.0 | 58.2 | |||
| DBP | MnBP | 19.4 | 6.9 | 12.5 | 28.3 | 97.2 | 23.0 | 9.0 | 18.0 | 32.3 | 98.5 |
| MiBP | 4.0 | 0.7 | 2.4 | 5.1 | 72.9 | 4.1 | 1.5 | 2.8 | 5.0 | 80.2 | |
| ΣDBP | 23.4 | 8.3 | 14.8 | 34.0 | 27.0 | 10.0 | 20.5 | 37.1 | |||
| Creatinine (mg/dL) | 79.3 | 33.0 | 59.0 | 124 | 94.3 | 51.7 | 76.4 | 130 | |||
LOD, limit of detection.
a
Excludes four samples with extreme phthalate metabolite concentration and one with missing phthalate concentrations.