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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Res. 2014 Aug 29;134:233–241. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2014.08.010

Table 1.

Distribution of maternal (in utero exposure) and peripubertal urinary phthalate metabolites and BPA (μg/L, not adjusted for urine dilution)

LOD GM 5th 25th 50th 75th 95th
In utero (n=116)
 MEHP 1.0 5.0 <1.0 2.52 5.63 9.50 30.1
 MEHHP 0.1 19.1 3.49 9.13 22.7 37.5 96.7
 MEOHP 0.1 11.6 2.45 5.80 13.25 24.7 56.1
 MECPP 0.2 30.9 6.12 15.1 35.4 58.1 138
 MBzP 0.2 4.1 0.95 2.22 3.67 7.04 29.6
 MnBP 0.5 54.3 7.06 26.4 54.2 119 606
 MiBP 0.2 2.0 0.34 0.96 2.01 3.62 12.6
 MCPP 0.2 1.0 <0.2 0.50 1.07 1.93 6.55
 MEP 1.0 114 9.12 40.8 116 242 1900
 BPA 0.4 0.78 <0.4 <0.4 0.70 1.42 4.06
Peripubertal (n=129)
 MEHP 1.0 5.8 <1.0 3.55 5.49 11.4 19.4
 MEHHP 0.1 45.4 11.4 23.9 46.1 86.6 189
 MEOHP 0.1 20.0 4.78 11.6 20.3 39 84.5
 MECPP 0.2 61.8 14.8 36 67.1 111 213
 MBzP 0.2 5.8 1.21 3.36 5.82 10.8 23.5
 MnBP 0.5 108 18.3 59.4 109 224 615
 MiBP 0.2 10.9 2.85 5.93 11.7 19.1 45
 MCPP 0.2 2.2 0.44 1.06 2.45 3.93 13.7
 MEP 1.0 97.5 15 32.2 82.9 243 1230
 BPA 0.4 1.2 <0.4 0.583 1.3 2.57 5.82

LOD, limit of detection; GM, geometric mean