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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Reprod Toxicol. 2014 Nov 22;54:120–128. doi: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2014.11.006

Table 7. Urine paraben and phenol total concentration (μg/L) quintiles and between visit correlations.

Compound Visit (n) Min 5th 25th Median 75th 95th Max Significance
Butyl paraben 1 (34) <LOD <LOD 0.4 1.4 4.6 16.7 65.5 *
2 (33) <LOD <LOD 0.5 2.9 6.8 69.6 110
Ethyl paraben 1(34) <LOD <LOD <LOD 5.3 19.4 84 135 ***
2(33) <LOD <LOD <LOD 1.0 29 63.6 497
Methyl paraben 1(34) <LOD 11.6 75.3 143 266 1610 1710 **
2(33) 6.7 17.1 45.8 125 248 968 993
Propyl paraben 1(34) <LOD 1 13.8 28.6 69 207 243 **
2(33) 0.4 0.5 7.5 41.3 93.9 208 279
Triclosan 1(34) <LOD <LOD 8.2 18.4 54.7 405 567 **
2(33) <LOD <LOD 6.3 17.9 71.5 289 295
Benzophenone-3 1(34) <LOD <LOD <LOD 4.7 22.3 1440 3200 No
2(33) <LOD <LOD 0.7 36.7 158 1880 2710
Bisphenol A 1(34) <LOD 0.6 0.6 1.1 4.1 16.9 20 No
2(33) <LOD <LOD 0.5 1.0 3 28.3 31.9
2,4-Dichlorophenol 1(34) <LOD <LOD 0.3 0.5 0.9 3.1 3.2 ***
2(33) <LOD <LOD 0.2 0.7 1.1 3.8 19.5
2,5-Dichlorophenol 1(34) <LOD <LOD 0.6 1.9 6.2 53.5 65.3 ***
2(33) <LOD <LOD 0.6 3.1 6.9 84.1 778

‘Total’ concentrations refer to the sum of the free plus conjugated species. Urine paraben/phenol significant between visit correlation, p-value

*

<0.05,

**

<0.01,

***

<0.001.

Concentrations below the limit of detection (LOD) were assigned a value equal to LOD divided by the square root of 2, for all calculations.