Table 1.
Distribution of uncorrected and SG-corrected paraben concentrations in urine (μg/L) collected at the initial clinic visit.
| Analyte | n | Percent detected | GM | Percentile |
Maximum | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10th | 25th | 50th | 75th | 90th | 95th | |||||
| Uncorrected | ||||||||||
| MP | 194 | 100 | 28.6 | 5.10 | 11.4 | 27.4 | 64.8 | 191 | 258 | 1,080 |
| PP | 194 | 92 | 3.67 | 0.40 | 0.80 | 3.45 | 17.1 | 43.8 | 95.5 | 294 |
| BP | 194 | 32 | NC | < LOD | < LOD | < LOD | 0.30 | 1.70 | 4.10 | 64.5 |
| SG-corrected | ||||||||||
| MP | 190 | 35.5 | 6.63 | 14.4 | 32.6 | 85.7 | 200 | 340 | 1,037 | |
| PP | 190 | 4.52 | 0.48 | 1.07 | 4.45 | 20.9 | 58.9 | 107 | 229 | |
| BP | 190 | NC | < LOD | < LOD | < LOD | 0.36 | 1.60 | 3.73 | 32.0 | |
GM, geometric mean. Not calculated (NC) because of the high percentage of samples < LOD. For MP, LOD was 1.0 μg/L; for both PP and BP, LOD was 0.2 μg/L.