Fig. 1. Lipid profiles and blood mercury concentrations by scatter plot. Total-C, HDL-C, LDL-C show a tendency to increase according to blood mercury concentrations. Solid line represents locally estimated scatterplot smoothing. Dotted line represents regression.
BHg: blood mercury concentrations; Total-C: total cholesterol; HDL-C: high-density lipoprotein cholesterol; TG: triglyceride; LDL-C: low-density lipoprotein cholesterol.