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.
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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 |
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