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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Feb 14.
Published in final edited form as: J Occup Environ Med. 2006 Aug;48(8):759–770. doi: 10.1097/01.jom.0000232486.07658.74

Table 4.

Serum [PFOA] in ng/ml by primary residential source of drinking watera,b. All Participants (randomly selected and local volunteers)

Drinking Water Source N Median Mean IQR Range
Little Hocking system water only 291 374 448 221–576 7–1950
Little Hocking system plus bottled or spring 26 320 358 206–370 72–1280
Bottled and/or cistern and/or spring only* 10 71 154 49–217 12–527
Well water and well & other 26 79 296 28–155 8–4520
a

Subjects with substantial occupational exposure to PFOA were excluded from these analyses

b

7 subjects did not indicate residential source of drinking water

*

Significantly different from Little Hocking water only (p=.003 ) and Little Hocking system plus bottled or spring water (p=.05)