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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Res. 2018 Dec 25;171:177–184. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2018.12.061

Table 2.

Exposure distribution of individual congeners collected in the third trimester of pregnancy1,2

Congener Minimum (ng/g) Mean (ng/g) SD (ng/g) Geometric Mean (ng/g) Median (ng/g) Maximum (ng/g)
PCB 11 1.24 53.74 45.43 32.01 42.68 157.78
PCB 52 1.33 9.82 6.36 7.53 8.87 28.88
PCB 77 0.36 3.06 1.40 2.76 2.90 9.79
PCB 84 0.55 3.40 3.85 2.55 2.41 27.23
PCB 91 0.57 2.04 2.06 1.64 1.73 18.10
PCB 95 0.54 3.29 2.31 2.89 3.00 20.56
PCB 101 0.95 9.98 15.31 6.78 6.85 145.75
PCB 118 0.51 11.53 6.78 8.78 11.87 43.85
PCB 132 0.65 3.27 2.24 2.67 2.71 14.68
PCB 136 0.14 2.48 2.52 1.79 1.95 20.70
PCB 138 0.77 4.84 3.90 3.96 4.24 32.71
PCB 153 0.81 9.94 7.72 6.80 8.54 45.67
PCB 174 0.54 3.04 5.92 1.79 1.72 46.79
PCB 175 0.38 3.39 2.98 2.68 2.78 25.70
PCB 176 0.12 3.43 12.72 1.46 1.58 126.12
PCB 180 0.57 9.53 14.84 6.44 5.92 131.69
PCB 196 0.12 2.09 2.53 1.31 1.56 17.71

PCB = Polychlorinated Biphenyl; SD = Standard Deviation

1

Distribution only includes mothers that met all eligibility for inclusion in the analysis,

2

Distribution includes imputed values using LOD/2 to replace missing observations