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Published in final edited form as: Ecohealth. 2016 Sep 19;13(4):784–795. doi: 10.1007/s10393-016-1162-4

Table 2.

Total mercury levels in hair, blood, and urine of mother-child pairs, as well as in household soil from the Aamjiwnaang and the off-reserve population.

		Mean	Std. Deviation	10^th	25^th	50^th	75^th	90^th
Hair Hg (μg/g)	Children (On-Reserve)	0.13	0.13	0.02	0.04	0.09	0.15	0.29
	Children (Off-Reserve)	0.13	0.08	0.04	0.07	0.10	0.16	0.28
	Mothers (On-Reserve)	0.22	0.13	0.07	0.12	0.21	0.29	0.43
	Mothers (Off-Reserve)	0.28	0.27	0.05	0.09	0.17	0.40	0.83
Blood Hg (μg/L)	Children (On-Reserve)	1.96	2.03	0.22	0.44	0.90	3.82	5.69
	Children (Off-Reserve)	0.75	1.40	0.09	0.14	0.28	0.63	3.82
	Mothers (On-Reserve)	1.61	1.96	0.26	0.37	0.88	1.71	4.64
	Mothers (Off-Reserve)	1.98	2.21	0.26	0.59	1.09	2.85	6.63
Urinary Hg (μg/L)	Children (On-Reserve)	0.57	1.11	0.10	0.16	0.30	0.50	1.16
	Children (Off-Reserve)	0.23	0.20	0.04	0.11	0.13	0.38	0.57
	Mothers (On-Reserve)	0.66	0.74	0.15	0.24	0.39	1.00	1.38
	Mothers (Off-Reserve)	0.44	0.41	0.09	0.17	0.27	0.72	1.19
Soil Hg (μg/kg)	On-Reserve Households	99.6	127.7	35.8	44.9	54.1	79.4	519.7
Soil Hg (μg/kg)	Off-Reserve Households	81.1	70.1	37.4	48.7	56.7	105.0	181.5