Table 1.

Descriptive data and measured Cd and ferritin for the whole study population and the subsample for which gene expression was measured.

Variable	Bangladesh			Argentinean Andes
	All women			All women			Gene-expressiona
	n	Median	Range	n	Median	Range	n	Median	Range
Age (years)	359	26	14–44	172	36	12–80	72	34	12–65
Weight (kg)	357	44	30–72	172	57	37–100	72	56	37–87
Height (cm)	359	150	136–170	172	152	137–165	72	152	142–165
BMI (kg/m2)	357	19.4	14–29	172	25.1	16.4–40	72	24.0	16.4–36
B-Cd (µg/L)	—	—	—	172	0.36	0.17–1.1	72	0.32	0.17–1.1
Ery-Cd (µg/kg)b	234	1.2	0.35–4.7	172	0.75	0.36–2.1	72	0.68	0.37–1.9
U-Cd (µg/L)c	359	0.54	0.05–4.5	172	0.24	0.01–1.5	72	0.22	0.01–1.5
Plasma ferritin (µg/L)	355	29	2.8–200	166	52	4–1,200	70	48	4–320
10th–90th percentile			12–65			10–220
5th–95th percentile			8–88			7–310
Abbreviations: —, not measured; BMI, body mass index. aSubgroup included in gene expression analyses. bEry-Cd was measured in the Bangladeshi women and was estimated based on B-Cd concentrations for the Andean women. cNormalized for specific gravity.