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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Chemosphere. 2014 Jan 31;0:54–60. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2013.12.100

Table 2.

Spearman correlation coefficients for PBDEs measured in house dust (n=30) and handwipes collected (n=31*) at two different time points (approximately 2 years apart).

House Dust Handwipes

Congener rs p-value rs p-value
BDE 47 0.61 0.004 0.10 0.57
BDE 99 0.47 0.01 0.09 0.61
BDE 100 0.66 0.0001 0.15 0.42
BDE 153 0.35 0.06 0.08 0.67
BDE 209 0.43 0.02 N/A N/A
*

Handwipes were collected from two children from the same family at both time points.