Table 4. Correlations between amounts neonicotinoids excreted and the characteristics of the participants.

	Clothianidin		Desmethyl-acetamiprid		Dinotefuran		Imidacloprid		Thiamethoxam
	r	p value	r	p value	r	p value	r	p value	r	p value
Age	0.21	<.0001	0.19	0.0002	0.21	<.0001	0.23	<.0001	0.06	0.23
Height	0.01	0.79	−0.01	0.81	0.05	0.29	−0.10	0.06	0.01	0.90
Weight	0.01	0.88	0.01	0.81	0.08	0.15	−0.10	0.07	−0.05	0.40
Parity	0.25	<.0001	0.24	<.0001	0.24	<.0001	0.17	0.004	0.07	0.24
Food consumption
cereal	0.06	0.28	−0.05	0.41	0.18	0.002	−0.02	0.74	0.02	0.71
potato	0.03	0.58	0.004	0.94	0.04	0.47	−0.007	0.91	−0.05	0.36
vegetable	0.09	0.14	0.06	0.28	0.12	0.03	0.27	<.0001	0.03	0.56
fruit	0.14	0.02	0.14	0.02	0.14	0.02	0.17	0.005	0.004	0.94
tea	0.10	0.10	0.05	0.40	0.10	0.13	0.11	0.09	0.04	0.55
Insecticide use	−0.05	0.38	−0.05	0.37	−0.07	0.24	0.01	0.81	−0.004	0.94
	mean±SD	p valuea	mean±SD	p value	mean±SD	p value	mean±SD	p value	mean±SD	p value
Sex
male	0.7±1.8	0.16	1.3±3.1	0.48	4.1±9.0	0.34	0.07±0.20	0.98	0.17±0.23	0.86
female	0.5±0.8		1.1±1.9		3.2±5.2		0.07±0.20		0.18±0.37
Vegetable eating habitsb
often	0.6±1.1	0.08	1.2±2.2	0.055	3.2±4.4	0.12	0.06±0.10	0.07	0.19±0.43	0.07
sometimes	0.3±0.3		0.6±1.0		2.3±3.1		0.03±0.06		0.09±0.11
Drinking
current drinker	0.5±0.6	0.02	1.2±1.8	0.20	3.9±8.1	0.23	0.11±0.31	0.02	0.21±0.42	0.29
ex-drinker	1.2±3.1		2.0±5.2		4.0±4.6		0.03±0.03		0.21±0.23
non-drinker	0.5±0.8		1.0±1.8		2.9±4.1		0.05±0.11		0.15±0.33
Smoking
current smoker	0.13±0.15	0.77	0.31±0.31	0.70	0.07±0.12	0.005	0.05±0.04	0.66	0.04±0.04	0.72
ex-smoker	0.5±0.5		1.3±1.2		6.7±11.6		0.11±0.25		0.15±0.19
non-smoker	0.5±1.0		1.1±2.1		3.1±5.0		0.07±0.20		0.18±0.37

r, Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient for continuous characteristics; SD, standard deviation.

^a Analysis of variance or Student’s t-test for categorical characteristics.

^b ‘Often’ means eating vegetables at least once a day.