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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Apr 15.
Published in final edited form as: Sci Total Environ. 2015 Dec 10;544:701–710. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.11.136

Table 4.

Regression model parameter estimates (95% confidence intervals) for children ages 1–7 and 8–17 and adults ≥18.

Parameter 1–7 (n = 135)
8–17 (n = 55)
≥18 (n = 183)
Estimate (95% CI) p value Estimate (95% CI) p value Estimate (95% CI) p value
Untreated water [As] (μg/L) 0.0021 (0.0008, 0.0034) 0.0013 0.0013 (0.0007, 0.0018) <.0001 0.0014 (0.0006, 0.0022) 0.0010
Untreated water consumption (L) −0.7872 (−1.7116, 0.1422) 0.0969 −1.6286 (−2.5035, −0.7537) 0.0003 −0.1435 (−0.6390, 0.3520) 0.5703
Untreated water from cooking (L) 1.1372 (−0.5421, 2.8165) 0.1844 −0.7605 (−2.1996, 0.6786) 0.3003 −1.5169 (−3.3288, 0.2951) 0.1009
Untreated water [As] × untreated water consumption (μg) 0.0205 (0.0028, 0.0382) 0.0235 0.0957 (0.0509, 0.1405) <.0001 0.0224 (0.0036, 0.0411) 0.0194
Untreated water [As] × untreated water from cooking (μg) 0.0117 (−0.0044, 0.0278) 0.1538 −0.0008 (−0.0690, 0.0675) 0.9828 0.0395 (0.0139, 0.0650) 0.0025
Treated water [As] (μg/L) 0.1037 (0.0254, 0.1820) 0.0095 0.0602 (0.0096, 0.1108) 0.0197 0.0798 (0.0335, 0.1260) 0.0007
Treated water consumption (L) −0.0478 (−0.2183, 0.1227) 0.5826 0.2219 (0.1029, 0.3409) 0.0003 0.0557 (−0.0028, 0.1142) 0.0619
Treated water from cooking (L) −1.1925 (−2.0308, −0.3541) 0.0053 −1.1882 (−1.6792, −0.6972) <.0001 −0.1321 (−0.5772, 0.3129) 0.5606
Apple juice consumption (L) 0.1988 (−0.0900, 0.4875) 0.1773 0.4430 (0.2023, 0.6837) 0.0003
Rice meal consumption (g dry rice) 0.0071 (0.0040, 0.0102) <.0001 0.0104 (0.0060, 0.0147) <.0001 0.0027 (0.0009, 0.0044) 0.0029
Seafood consumption (previous week) 0.0165 (−0.1772, 0.2102) 0.8675 0.1382 (−0.1469, 0.4233) 0.3421 0.2655 (0.0915, 0.4396) 0.0028

Results for ln-transformed subtracted urinary arsenic adjusted for gender, age, and creatinine. All consumption variables represent 3-day totals.