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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 13.
Published in final edited form as: J Epidemiol Community Health. 2009 Apr 8;63(6):488–496. doi: 10.1136/jech.2008.082792

Table 3.

Pearson correlation coefficients (r) for subjects’ trimester specific pollutant concentrations.

Trimester
specific
pollutant
PM2.5 NO2 SO2 CO
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
PM2.5 1st --- −0.09 0.30 0.01 0.06 0.14 0.17 −0.11 0.33 0.25 0.21 0.31
2nd −0.09 --- −0.17 0.05 −0.02 0.04 0.04 0.17 −0.02 0.31 0.22 0.21
3rd 0.30 −0.17 --- 0.16 0.08 −0.00 0.37 0.04 0.19 0.26 0.30 0.22
NO2 1st 0.01 0.05 0.16 --- 0.85 0.75 0.16 0.06 −0.03 0.51 0.52 0.44
2nd 0.06 −0.02 0.08 0.85 --- 0.87 −0.05 0.12 0.16 0.47 0.54 0.54
3rd 0.14 0.04 −0.00 0.75 0.87 --- −0.08 −0.06 0.17 0.48 0.48 0.53
SO2 1st 0.17 0.04 0.37 0.16 −0.05 −0.08 --- 0.37 0.14 0.22 0.18 0.02
2nd −0.11 0.17 0.04 0.06 0.12 −0.06 0.37 --- 0.47 0.12 0.25 0.21
3rd 0.33 −0.02 0.19 −0.03 0.16 0.17 0.14 0.47 --- 0.21 0.24 0.38
CO 1st 0.25 0.31 0.26 0.51 0.47 0.48 0.22 0.12 0.21 --- 0.88 0.83
2nd 0.21 0.22 0.30 0.52 0.54 0.48 0.18 0.25 0.24 0.88 --- 0.89
3rd 0.31 0.21 0.22 0.44 0.54 0.53 0.02 0.21 0.38 0.83 0.89 ---