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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Crit Care Med. 2011 Jan;39(1):40–45. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181fa4196

Table 3.

Concurrence between cigarette smoke exposure by history and by combined biomarker status (n = 60)

Smoking Status by Serum Cotinine and Urine NNAL

Smoking Status
by History
Nonsmoker
(Cotinine = 0 ng/mL
AND NNAL = 0
pg/mg Cr)
Exposed to Secondhand
Smoke (Cotinine >0,
<3.1 ng/mL OR NNAL
>0, <64 pg/mg Cr)
Smoker
(Cotinine ≥3.1 ng/mL
OR NNAL
≥64 pg/mg Cr)
Total
Nonsmoker 1 21 6 28
Smoker 1 0 28 29
Unknown 2 1 0 3
Total 4 22 34 60

Cr, creatinine; NNAL, 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanol.