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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 23.
Published in final edited form as: Anal Bioanal Chem. 2016 Oct 28;409(4):931–937. doi: 10.1007/s00216-016-9933-x

Table 5.

Geometric mean (GM) and select percentile concentrations (ng/mL) of OH-PAHs in 36 nonsmokers and 36 smokers.

Analyte NonSmoker (n=36) Smoker (n=36) Smoker GM / Nonsmoker GM
GM 25th 50th 75th GM 25th 50th 75th
2-OH-NAP 1.97 1.09 1.90 4.56 11.24 5.91 10.44 21.79 5.72
1-OH-NAP 0.57 0.39 0.57 0.88 6.81 3.19 8.06 15.53 12.00
3-OH-FLU 0.04 0.02 0.04 0.06 0.46 0.20 0.46 1.35 12.37
2-OH-FLU 0.09 0.04 0.08 0.15 0.76 0.38 0.82 1.84 8.53
Σ2,3-OH-PHE 0.08 0.05 0.08 0.12 0.33 0.20 0.32 0.64 4.31
1-OH-PHE 0.05 0.03 0.05 0.08 0.13 0.06 0.11 0.33 2.49
4-OH-PHE 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.02 0.03 0.02 0.04 0.07 2.82
1-OH-PYR 0.08 0.06 0.08 0.12 0.38 0.17 0.38 0.99 4.75