Erratum: “Prenatal PBDE and PCB Exposures and Reading, Cognition, and Externalizing Behavior in Children”

In the original article, Figure 2a incorrectly showed a mean of $-0.34$ for Full-Scale Intelligence Quotient (FSIQ) score in the fourth quartile of ${\text{Sum}}_4\text{polybrominated}\text{diphenyl}\text{ethers}\left(\text{PBDEs}\right)$. The correct mean should have been $-3.40$. The corrected Figure 2 appears in this erratum.

Figure 2.

Trend and association of child’s reading scores, FSIQ, and externalizing problems scores with prenatal ${\text{Sum}}_4\text{PBDEs}$ and ${\text{Sum}}_4\text{PCBs}$ concentrations quartiles. (a) The trend and association of child’s reading scores, FSIQ, and externalizing behavior problems scores with prenatal ${\text{Sum}}_4\text{PBDEs}$; (b) The trend and association of child’s reading scores, FSIQ, and externalizing behavior problems scores with prenatal ${\text{Sum}}_4\text{PCBs}$. The quartile cutoffs were $<20.70$, 20.70–35.64, 35.65–76.00, and $\ge 76.00\text{ng}/\mathrm{g}$ lipid for ${\text{Sum}}_4\text{PBDEs}$, and $<21.50$, 21.50–31.29, 31.30–42.80, and $\ge 42.80\text{ng}/\mathrm{g}$ for ${\text{Sum}}_4\text{PCBs}$, respectively. The score in the first quartile is the reference. Note: Adjusted for maternal age, education, race, IQ, household income, parity, married status, smoking (maternal serum cotinine), fish consumption, depression, child sex, and HOME score. FSIQ, Full-Scale Intelligence Quotient; * $p<0.05$, $p<0.10$.

In Table 3, the coefficient of FSIQ with maternal serum ${\log }_{10}\text{BDE}-47$ was incorrectly typed as 3.7 ($-8.8$, 1.5). The correct coefficient should have been $-3.7$ ($-8.8$, 1.5).

These errors do not affect the analysis, study findings, or interpretation of the results. The authors regret these typographical errors.

Environ Health Perspect 125(4):746–752 (2017), https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP478