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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Hyg Environ Health. 2017 Sep 12;220(8):1347–1355. doi: 10.1016/j.ijheh.2017.09.005

Table 4.

1st trimester urinary phthalate metabolite concentrations and distribution shifts for early gestational weight gain (GWG, kg)

Log-
transformed
SG-adjusted
phthalate
metabolites
Mean GWG 25th Percentile Median GWG 75th percentile
MEP
  Q1 Ref
  Q2 0.94 (0.24, 1.64) 0.82 (−0.09, 1.72) 0.84 (0.07, 1.62) 1.3 (0.26, 2.35)
  Q3 −0.06 (−0.78, 0.65) −0.18 (−1.1, 0.74) 0.01 (−0.78, 0.8) 0.39 (−0.68, 1.45)
  Q4 −0.1 (−0.83, 0.63) −0.8 (−1.73, 0.14) 0.16 (−0.65, 0.96) 0.4 (−0.69, 1.48)
MnBP
  Q1 Ref
  Q2 0.27 (−0.41, 0.94) 0.26 (−0.6, 1.13) 0.45 (−0.25, 1.15) 0.62 (−0.45, 1.7)
  Q3 −0.14 (−0.86, 0.58) 0 (−0.93, 0.92) 0.05 (−0.69, 0.8) 0.21 (−0.94, 1.36)
  Q4 −0.3 (−1.03, 0.44) −0.6 (−1.53, 0.34) −0.51 (−1.27, 0.25) −0.16 (−1.33, 1.01)
MiBP
  Q1 Ref
  Q2 0.12 (−0.58, 0.82) 0.64 (−0.19, 1.46) −0.01 (−0.81, 0.78) 0.16 (−0.9, 1.22)
  Q3 0.42 (−0.31, 1.15) 0.39 (−0.47, 1.25) 0.07 (−0.77, 0.9) 0.87 (−0.23, 1.97)
  Q4 0.35 (−0.37, 1.07) 0.72 (−0.13, 1.57) −0.02 (−0.84, 0.8) 0.08 (−1.01, 1.17)
MBzP
  Q1 Ref
  Q2 0.17 (−0.54, 0.88) 0.39 (−0.57, 1.35) 0.28 (−0.5, 1.06) 0.5 (−0.52, 1.51)
  Q3 −0.21 (−0.93, 0.5) −0.05 (−1.02, 0.91) −0.12 (−0.91, 0.66) 0.02 (−1, 1.04)
  Q4 −0.28 (−1.01, 0.44) −0.23 (−1.21, 0.75) −0.3 (−1.1, 0.5) −0.38 (−1.42, 0.66)
MCPP
  Q1 Ref
  Q2 0.08 (−0.61, 0.77) 0.01 (−0.83, 0.84) −0.16 (−0.91, 0.6) 0.2 (−0.84, 1.24)
  Q3 −0.46 (−1.17, 0.26) −0.38 (−1.24, 0.48) −0.68 (−1.46, 0.09) −0.26 (−1.33, 0.81)
  Q4 0.22 (−0.49, 0.93) 0.14 (−0.71, 0.99) −0.04 (−0.81, 0.73) 0.46 (−0.6, 1.52)
ΣDEHP
  Q1 Ref
  Q2 0.49 (−0.18, 1.16) 0.33 (−0.38, 1.04) 0.23 (−0.53, 0.98) 0.3 (−0.79, 1.39)
  Q3 −0.58 (−1.26, 0.1) −0.94 (−1.67, – 0.22) −0.98 (−1.74, – 0.21) −0.67 (−1.77, 0.44)
  Q4 −0.42 (−1.14, 0.3) −0.41 (−1.17, 0.35) −0.42 (−1.22, 0.39) −0.27 (−1.43, 0.9)
*

Adjusted for maternal age, race/ethnicity, education, smoking, alcohol, baseline BMI