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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Hyg Environ Health. 2020 Jun 7;228:113527. doi: 10.1016/j.ijheh.2020.113527

Table 4.

Weighted quantile Sum (WQS) regression analysis results for maternal POP serum concentrations and child reading skills at age 8 years

Chemical Inverse association with WQS Positive association with WQS
WQS unit −2.63 (−5.41, 0.15) 5.49 (2.04, 8.94)
Average weight Average weight
Log10 PBDEs
 BDE-28 0.157 0.000
 BDE-47 0.033 0.000
 BDE-99 0.078 0.001
 BDE-100 0.354 0.000
 BDE-153 0.102 0.003
Log10 PCBs
 CB-74 0.017 0.009
 CB-99 0.022 0.011
 CB-118 0.002 0.132
 CB-138_158 0.007 0.013
 CB-153 0.000 0.098
 CB-180 0.006 0.214
Log10 P,P’-DDE 0.039 0.006
Log10 P,P’-DDT 0.139 0.005
Log10 PFAS
 PFOS 0.000 0.121
 PFOA 0.007 0.035
 PFHxS 0.035 0.062
 PFNA 0.000 0.290

Adjusted for maternal age, race, education, household income, marital status, depression, serum cotinine, blood lead, fish consumption, IQ, and child sex and HOME score