Table 4.

Spearman correlation between parabens

First urine sample (n = 511)
	MP	EP	PP	iBuP	BP
MP r (p)	1
EP r (p)	0.55 (< 0.001)	1
PPr (p)	0.64 (< 0.001)	0.41 (< 0.001)	1
iBuPr (p)	0.13 (0.002)	0.17 (< 0.001)	0.16 (< 0.001)	1
BPr (p)	0.30 (< 0.001)	0.28 (< 0.001)	0.28 (< 0.001)	0.34 (< 0.001)	1
Second urine sample (N = 120)
	MP	EP	PP	BP
MP r (p)	1
EP r (p)	0.44 (< 0.001)	1
PP r (p)	0.49 (< 0.001)	0.37 (< 0.001)	1
BP r (p)	0.26 (0.004)	0.16 (0.09)	0.13 (0.17)	1

Note: p p values, r correlations coefficient, MP methyl-paraben, EP ethyl-paraben, PP propyl-paraben, BP butyl-paraben, iBuP izobuthyl-paraben