Table VI.
Association of Housing Type with Number of Multiple Detections across the Specific Pesticide Urinary Metabolites, Eastern North Carolina, 2007 (n = 196).
| Pesticide class | House | Barrack | Trailer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of metabolites for which farmworkers had at least one detection |
n | % | n | % | n | % | p | |
| All 12 metabolites | 4–6 | 22 | 26.5 | 22 | 64.7 | 24 | 30.4 | 0.001 |
| 7 | 25 | 30.1 | 6 | 17.7 | 29 | 36.7 | ||
| 8–10 | 36 | 43.4 | 6 | 17.7 | 26 | 32.9 | ||
| Organophosphorus insecticides |
1–2 | 24 | 28.9 | 17 | 50.0 | 20 | 25.3 | 0.005 |
| 3 | 28 | 33.7 | 15 | 44.1 | 36 | 45.6 | ||
| 4–5 | 31 | 37.4 | 2 | 5.9 | 23 | 29.1 | ||
| Herbicides | 1–2 | 35 | 42.2 | 29 | 85.3 | 48 | 60.8 | <.0001 |
| 3 | 48 | 57.8 | 5 | 14.7 | 31 | 39.2 | ||