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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Sep 15.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Sci Technol. 2011 Aug 19;45(18):7896–7905. doi: 10.1021/es200422b

Table 3.

Associations between PBDEs and TH in second trimester pregnant women in Northern and Central California

Free T4 (N=25)
Total T4 (N=24)
TSH (N=25)
β 95% CI β 95% CI β 95% CI
PBDE groupings (ng/mL)
 ΣPBDE5 −0.02 −0.15, 0.12 0.50 −1.04, 2.04 0.40 −0.07, 0.87#
Individual congeners (ng/mL)
 BDE-28 −0.11 −0.24, 0.02# −0.57 −2.12, 0.98 0.38 −0.12, 0.87
 BDE-47 −0.04 −0.16, 0.09 0.02 −1.37, 1.41 0.39 −0.04, 0.82#
 BDE-85 −0.01 −0.10, 0.08 0.55 −0.47, 1.57 0.33 0.02, 0.64*
 BDE-99 0.01 −0.09, 0.11 0.84 −0.31, 1.99 0.24 −0.12, 0.60
 BDE-100 −0.02 −0.12, 0.07 0.21 −1.02, 1.43 0.23 −0.12, 0.59
 BDE-153 0.04 −0.06, 0.14 0.66 −0.66, 1.98 0.07 −0.32, 0.45
 BDE-207 0.06 −0.07, 0.19 0.51 −0.96, 1.97 −0.72 −1.10, −0.34**
*

p < 0.05;

**

p < 0.01;

#

p < 0.10

Adjusted for lipid content and insurance type; and total T4 models are additionally adjusted for age.