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. 2014 Jul 22;2014:408939. doi: 10.1155/2014/408939

Table 3.

Descriptive statistics of the PAH metabolites (μg/g creatinine).

PAH metabolites N Mean ±SD Median 95th percentile Range
1-OH-PHE 104 1.50 1.27 1.10 4.14 0.30–8.64
2-OH-PHE 104 0.61 0.50 0.43 1.47 0.13–3.07
3-OH-PHE 104 0.45 0.43 0.31 1.27 0.05–2.79
4-OH-PHE 104 0.17 0.14 0.13 0.48 0.02–0.70
9-OH-PHE 104 0.15 0.20 0.10 0.43 0.004–1.70
∑OH-PHE 104 2.88 2.43 2.12 7.26 0.61–16.77
PHE-1,2-diol 210 4.09 4.53 2.41 12.70 0.06–26.72
PHE-9,10-diol 210 5.93 10.57 2.70 23.88 0.05–94.15
∑PHE-diol 210 10.01 13.35 6.05 34.44 0.24–115.35
1-OH-PYR 104 0.43 0.30 0.35 0.97 0.06–1.64
DI-OH-PYR 104 0.30 0.33 0.21 0.84 0.002–2.52
∑OH-PYR 104 0.73 0.57 0.56 1.75 0.06–4.17

1-, 2-, 3-, 4-, and 9-OH-PHE, 1-, 2-, 3-, 4-, and 9-hydroxyphenanthrene; ∑OH-PHE, sum of 1-, 2-, 3-, 4-, and 9-OH-PHE; PHE-1,2-diol, phenanthrene trans-1,2-dihydrodiol; PHE-9,10-diol, phenanthrene trans-9,10-dihydrodiol; ∑PHE-diol, sum of PHE-1,2-diol and PHE-9,10-diol; 1-OH-PYR, 1-hydroxypyrene; DI-OH-PYR, sum of 1,6- and 1,8-dihydroxypyrenes; ∑OH-PYR, sum of 1-OH-PYR and DI-OH-PYR.