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Published in final edited form as: Horm Behav. 2014 Nov 8;66(5):787–792. doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2014.10.003

Table 2.

Distribution of specific-gravity corrected phthalate metabolite concentrations in μg/l (n = 360).

Phthalate (abbreviation)	Metabolite (abbreviation)	Geometric mean	Percentiles			LOD (% detected)
Phthalate (abbreviation)	Metabolite (abbreviation)	Geometric mean	25%	50%	75%	LOD (% detected)
Di-2-ethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP)	Mono-2-ethylhexyl phthalate (MEHP)	4.08	1.84	3.97	9.09	0.981 (77)
	Mono-2-ethyl-5-oxohexyl phthalate (MEOHP)	13.12	8.40	13.84	23.62	1.068 (97)
	Mono-2-ethyl-5-hydroxyhexyl phthalate (MEHHP)	14.66	7.29	12.57	20.50	0.954 (98)
Di-n-butyl phthalate (DBP)	Mono-n-butyl phthalate (MBP)	18.72	11.73	18.77	30.53	1.071 (98)
Diethyl phthalate (DEP)	Mono-ethyl phthalate (MEP)	118.64	46.66	105.91	293.97	1.0 (99)
Di-isobutyl phthalate (DIBP)	Mono-isobutyl phthalate (MiBP)	3.14	1.73	3.10	5.60	1.038 (82)
Butylbenzyl phthalate (BBzP)	Mono-benzyl phthalate (MBzP)	9.21	4.64	9.71	18.54	1.0 (96)