Table 4.
Summary of all post-exposure and only end-of-day urine HDA levelsa, adjusted for creatinine concentration, stratified twice by workplace and individual factors. The HDA levels were first stratified into the two levels of variable A. Then, they were stratified again into the two levels of variable B.b
| Post-exposure urine (μg HDA/g creatinine) |
End-of-day urine (μg HDA/g creatinine |
|||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable A | Level A | Variable B | Level B | N | GM | GSD | p-value | GM | GSD | p-value |
| Respirator | PAPR/air supply | Coverall | no | 4 | 0.08 | 5.56 | 0.77 | 0.08 | 5.59 | 0.78 |
| yes | 22 | 0.07 | 3.65 | 0.07 | 4.57 | |||||
| Cartridge | Coverall | no | 33 | 0.17 | 3.22 | 0.10 | 0.14 | 4.95 | 0.31 | |
| yes | 55 | 0.10 | 5.40 | 0.09 | 5.99 | |||||
| Respirator | PAPR/air supply | Gloves | no | 3 | 0.09 | 3.46 | 0.74 | 0.09 | 4.34 | 0.67 |
| yes | 23 | 0.07 | 3.98 | 0.07 | 4.77 | |||||
| Cartridge | Gloves | no | 21 | 0.16 | 3.56 | 0.44 | 0.13 | 5.35 | 0.52 | |
| yes | 67 | 0.12 | 4.96 | 0.10 | 5.72 | |||||
| Respirator | PAPR/air supply | Current | no | 20 | 0.05 | 4.12 | 0.03 | 0.05 | 4.71 | 0.16 |
| smoker | yes | 6 | 0.16 | 2.08 | 0.15 | 3.55 | ||||
| Cartridge | Current | no | 57 | 0.12 | 4.93 | 0.47 | 0.10 | 5.95 | 0.44 | |
| smoker | yes | 31 | 0.15 | 4.05 | 0.13 | 5.04 | ||||
| Coverall | no | Current | no | 21 | 0.17 | 3.17 | 0.65 | 0.14 | 4.30 | 0.74 |
| smoker | yes | 17 | 0.14 | 3.84 | 0.15 | 4.19 | ||||
| yes | Current | no | 57 | 0.08 | 5.23 | 0.06 | 0.06 | 5.90 | 0.10 | |
| smoker | yes | 20 | 0.16 | 3.62 | 6.41 | 6.46 | ||||
Post-exposure urine level includes all urine samples collected from a painter after at least one exposure had occurred while the end-of-day urine level was measured in the last urine sample of the workday.
N = number of urine samples; GM = geometric mean; GSD = geometric standard deviation.