. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Apr 18.

Published in final edited form as: Environ Sci Technol. 2017 Mar 29;51(8):4697–4704. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.7b00565

Table 2.

PBDE Serum Concentrations Among 1253 Study Participants

compound	Detection frequency^a	serum concentration (ng/g lipid)

		mean	median	minimum^b	maximum
BDE-47	88%	25.56	13.34	1.94	749.67
BDE-100	78%	5.08	2.31	0.30	186.31
BDE-153	80%	12.03	4.89	0.74	379.31

Detection frequency = percent of samples with serum concentration ≥ limit of detection(LOD).

If below the LOD, value was imputed = LOD/√ 2.