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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jan 17.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Sci Technol. 2020 Feb 26;54(6):3363–3374. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.9b05490

Table 3.

Geometric mean (GM) and 95% confidence interval (CI), detection frequency (DF), level of detection (LOD) (ng/mL) and percentilesa for each PFAS analyzed in the WFBC cohort.

Percentiles
Compound Name abbr. DF % LOD GM (95% CI) Min Max 25th 50th 75th 95th
perfluorohexane sulfonic acid PFHxS 100 0.02 3.79 (3.24, 4.43) 0.22 90.57 1.87 3.04 6.79 22.28
perfluorooctanoic acid PFOA 100 0.02 1.15 (1.05, 1.25) 0.29 5.18 0.83 1.11 1.56 3.22
perfluorooctane sulfonic acid PFOS 100 0.02 4.11 (3.68, 4.59) 0.54 81.02 2.56 4.14 6.53 12.61
perfluorononanoic acid PFNA 100 0.05 0.67 (0.61, 0.74) 0.15 4.49 0.42 0.64 1.03 2.2
perfluorodecanoic acid PFDA 98 0.02 0.25 (0.23, 0.28) <LOD 3.69 0.17 0.24 0.36 0.83
perfluoroundecanoic acid PFUnDA 80 0.02 0.18 (0.14, 0.22) <LOD 10.85 0.11 0.26 0.48 1.11
perfluorobutane sulfonic acid PFBS 73 0.02 0.13 (0.10,0.16) <LOD 1.45 <LOD 0.23 0.34 0.84
perfluorododecanoic acid PBDoA 24 0.02 * <LOD 1.73 <LOD <LOD <LOD 0.3
perfluorobutanoic acid PFBA 0 0.05 * <LOD <LOD <LOD <LOD <LOD <LOD
perfluorhexanoic acid PFHxA 0 0.02 * <LOD <LOD <LOD <LOD <LOD <LOD
perfluorheptanoic acid PFHpA 0 0.02 * <LOD <LOD <LOD <LOD <LOD <LOD
perfluorooctane sulfonamide PFOSA 0 0.02 * <LOD <LOD <LOD <LOD <LOD <LOD
a

Percentiles and summary statistics calculated using LOD/sqrt2 for those with less than 100% detection frequency.

*

GM and 95%CI not calculated for PFAS with less than 70% DF