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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 15.
Published in final edited form as: Talanta. 2013 Apr 6;113:99–105. doi: 10.1016/j.talanta.2013.03.086

Table 2.

Overview of the p-values for the dl-PCBs and PCDD/Fs (Ln-transformed) after multiple regression analysis.

p-value
dl-PCBs
(pg BEQ/g lipid)
PCDD/Fs
(pg BEQ/g lipid)
Age of the mother (years) 0.37 0.07
BMI of the mother (kg m−2) 0.12 0.35
Smoking (current, ex, never) 0.23 0.07
Weight change after pregnancy
(gained, lost, stable)
ns 0.003
Consumption of local eggs (yes/no) ns 0.05

ns = p >0.10 in the stepwise model and left out in the final regression model.