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Published in final edited form as: Int J Hyg Environ Health. 2013 Mar 9;216(6):703–709. doi: 10.1016/j.ijheh.2013.01.005

Table 3.

Results from single-chemical models, for association with ALT, NHANES 2003–2004.

Analyte Q2 vs. Q1 Q3 vs. Q1 Q4 vs. Q1
B (SE) p-value B (SE) p-value B (SE) p-value
Metals (ug/mL serum)
 Cadmium 0.0604 (0.0395) 0.1269 −0.0421 (0.0350) 0.2293 −0.0623 (0.0396) 0.1158
 Lead −0.0680 (0.0369) 0.0656 −0.0390 (0.0376) 0.2991 −0.1030 (0.0416) 0.0135
 Mercury 0.0327 (0.0356) 0.3597 0.0133 (0.0375) 0.7228 0.0914 (0.0387) 0.0183
Dioxin-like compounds (ng/g lipid)
 PCB 28 0.0591 (0.0384) 0.1250 −0.0288 (0.0383) 0.4527 0.0328 (0.0384) 0.3957
 PCB 66 −0.0144 (0.0386) 0.7011 0.0182 (0.0386) 0.6367 −0.0045 (0.0405) 0.9109
 PCB 74 0.0415 (0.0396) 0.2952 0.0453 (0.0451) 0.3159 0.0776 (0.0637) 0.2236
 PCB 105 0.0372 (0.0394) 0.3444 0.0352 (0.0419) 0.4018 0.0377 (0.0504) 0.4554
 PCB 118 0.0367 (0.0392) 0.3495 0.0217 (0.0424) 0.6092 0.0517 (0.0549) 0.3470
 PCB 156 0.0638 (0.0394) 0.1058 0.0148 (0.0489) 0.7616 0.0244 (0.0725) 0.7363
 1,2,3, 6,7,8-HXCDD −0.0138 (0.0398) 0.7287 0.0049 (0.0446) 0.9128 −0.0479 (0.0619) 0.4400
 1,2,3,4,6,7,8-HPCDD −0.0070 (0.0392) 0.8590 0.1026 (0.0406) 0.0117 0.0809 (0.0466) 0.0829
 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9-OCDD 0.0334 (0.0396) 0.3996 0.0642 (0.0433) 0.1385 0.0029 (0.0514) 0.9555
 1,2,3,4,6,7,8-HPCDF −0.0099 (0.0396) 0.8018 −0.0306 (0.0401) 0.4466 −0.0699 (0.0410) 0.0888
 3,3',4,4',5-PNCB 0.0574 (0.0402) 0.1540 0.0860 (0.0432) 0.0471 0.1046 (0.0518) 0.0439
Non-dioxin-like PCBs (ng/g lipid)
 PCB 44 −0.0290 (0.0389) 0.4573 0.0078 (0.0396) 0.8442 −0.0400 (0.0399) 0.3171
 PCB 49 −0.0162 (0.0388) 0.6761 −0.0120 (0.0395) 0.7609 −0.0300 (0.0400) 0.4542
 PCB 52 −0.0197 (0.0385) 0.6075 −0.0138 (0.0394) 0.7268 −0.0132 (0.0397) 0.7386
 PCB 87 −0.0225 (0.0387) 0.5614 0.0004 (0.0400) 0.9921 −0.0332 (0.0387) 0.3908
 PCB 99 0.0615 (0.0395) 0.1196 0.0148 (0.0419) 0.7247 0.0194 (0.0497) 0.6956
 PCB 101 0.0018 (0.0387) 0.9631 0.0007 (0.0394) 0.9867 0.0030 (0.0393) 0.9396
 PCB 110 −0.0438 (0.0388) 0.2608 −0.0196 (0.0397) 0.6207 −0.0281 (0.0395) 0.4767
 PCB 138 0.0139 (0.0394) 0.7251 0.0401 (0.0477) 0.4013 0.0628 (0.0645) 0.3308
 PCB 146 (0.0395) 0.4602 0.0500 (0.0489) 0.3073 0.0867 (0.0685) 0.2059
 PCB 149 −0.0421 (0.0382) 0.2710 0.0127 (0.0385) 0.7424 −0.0654 (0.0395) 0.0985
 PCB 151 −0.0366 (0.0387) 0.3440 0.0352 (0.0394) 0.3721 −0.0251 (0.0401) 0.5323
 PCB 153 0.0304 (0.0394) 0.4409 0.0516 (0.0481) 0.2840 0.1030 (0.0688) 0.1345
 PCB 170 0.0568 (0.0392) 0.1484 0.0391 (0.0489) 0.4242 0.0533 (0.0727) 0.4641
 PCB 177 0.0781 (0.0391) 0.0462 0.0811 (0.0468) 0.0836 0.0332 (0.0630) 0.5991
 PCB 178 0.0648 (0.0388) 0.0953 0.0783 (0.0481) 0.1037 0.1153 (0.0705) 0.1024
 PCB 180 0.0560 (0.0395) 0.1561 0.0917 (0.0494) 0.0642 0.1250 (0.0736) 0.0902
 PCB 183 0.0462 (0.0393) 0.2400 0.0741 (0.0476) 0.1205 0.0966 (0.0636) 0.1292
 PCB 187 0.0448 (0.0391) 0.2525 0.0717 (0.0475) 0.1321 0.1621 (0.0665) 0.0151
 PCB 194 0.0352 (0.0391) 0.3684 0.0487 (0.0477) 0.3070 0.0282 (0.0712) 0.6915
 PCB 196 0.0322 (0.0389) 0.4075 0.0504 (0.0470) 0.2841 0.0639 (0.0700) 0.3406
 PCB 199 0.0037 (0.0398) 0.9254 0.0510 (0.0490) 0.2989 0.0428 (0.0788) 0.5871
 PCB 206 0.0349 (0.0400) 0.3833 0.0898 (0.0473) 0.0580 0.0606 (0.0668) 0.3642
 PCB 209 0.0310 (0.0390) 0.4281 0.0513 (0.0461) 0.2662 −0.0121 (0.0644) 0.8510
*

Adjusted for sex, race/ethnicity, age (continuous), poverty-income ratio (continuous), and BMI (continuous)