Table 2.

Summary statistics of aflatoxin study

		Bangladesh (229/265)
	Month-7	Month-15	Month-24	Month-36
Number of blood samples collected	212	197	177	168
Number of insufficient samples	4	1	4	1
Number of available serum samples	208	196	173	167
Below the level of aflatoxin detected	187	156	143	64
Aflatoxin detected	21 (10.10%)	40 (20.41%)	30 (17.34%)	103 (61.68%)
Summary of AF lysine (pg/mg)
Mean	1.30	1.52	3.43	3.70
SD	1.50	1.47	11.83	12.99
Geometric mean	0.71	0.94	0.98	1.34
Median	0.83	1.14	0.95	1.17
IQR	(0.29–1.56)	(0.51–2.01)	(0.57–1.23)	(0.72–2.87)
Range	(0.09–5.79)	(0.06–6.35)	(0.15–65.60)	(0.09–126.54)