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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 7.
Published in final edited form as: J Environ Monit. 2010 Oct 26;13(1):119–127. doi: 10.1039/c0em00122h

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
a

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.

b

N = number of urine samples; GM = geometric mean; GSD = geometric standard deviation.