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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Res. 2016 May 23;149:222–230. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2016.05.022

Table 1.

Distribution of PBDE congener concentrations and lipids in serum samples of 80 young children recruited from Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta

PBDE (ng/mL) LOD (ng/mL) Percent detection Meana,b Minimum 25th percentile Median 75th percentile Maximum
PBDE-47 0.002 100.0% 0.15 0.02 0.09 0.14 0.26 2.47
PBDE-85 0.005 11.3% — <LOD <LOD <LOD <LOD 0.06
PBDE-99 0.002 100.0% 0.04 0.01 0.02 0.04 0.07 0.74
PBDE-100 0.002 83.8% 0.02 <LOD 0.01 0.02 0.04 0.48
PBDE-153 0.016 63.8% 0.02 <LOD <LOD 0.03 0.05 0.30
PBDE-154 0.007 15.0% — <LOD <LOD <LOD <LOD 0.09
PBDE-209 0.100 0.0% — <LOD <LOD <LOD <LOD <LOD
ΣPBDEc 0.25 0.05 0.14 0.23 0.44 4.00
ΣPBDE (pmol/mL)c,d 0.48 0.09 0.27 0.44 0.84 7.73
Lipids (mg/dL)
Cholesterol 102.8 10.2 77.7 101.1 127.9 262.2
Triglycerides 127.8 37.2 100.8 127.4 140.4 275.3
Total lipidse 423.4 200.0 353.4 403.8 478.1 788.0

Abbreviations: LOD: limit of detection

a

Geometric means reported for PBDE congeners and arithmetic means reported for lipids.

b

Geometric means not calculated for congeners with detection frequencies less than 50%. BDE-100 and -153 were imputed based on a lognormal probability distribution whose parameters were determined by maximum likelihood estimation.

c

Sum of congeners with detection frequencies greater than 60% (BDE-47, -99, -100, and -153). Including congeners -85 and -154 minimally impacted the sum.

d

Molar sum calculated by dividing each congener by its molecular weight, multiplying by 1,000, then summing congeners.

e

Total lipids = (2.27×Cholesterol)+Triglycerides+62.3 (Phillips et al. 1989)