. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Sep 16.

Published in final edited form as: Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health. 2020 May 19;51(1):77–87.

Table 5.

Relationship of organophosphate (OP) pesticides in meconium samples with mother occupation.

OP pesticide	Agricultural sector (n = 32)		Nonagricultural sector (n = 36)		p-value
OP pesticide	Number of samples (%)	OP concentration (μg/g) median(IQR)	Number of samples (%)	OP concentration (μg/g) median (IQR)	p-value
Chlorpyrifos	8 (25)	0.06 (0.02–0.12)	14 (39)	0.11 (0.03–0.17)	0.328
Demeton-s-methyl	25 (78)	0.30 (0.26–0.44)	25 (69)	0.39 (0.32–0.60)	0.088
Dichlorvos	12 (37)	0.69 (0.60–0.86)	14 (39)	0.65 (0.59–0.70)	0.256
Dimethoate	14 (44)	1.03 (0.09–2.86)	20 (55)	0.36 (0.12–1.49)	0.078
Ethion	4 (12)	0.20 (0.19–0.34)	4 (11)	0.24 (0.20–0.26)	0.714
Malathion	15 (47)	0.27 (0.16–0.48)	19 (53)	0.29 (0.14–0.65)	0.675
Omethoate	12 (37)	5.61 (4.67–8.38)	10 (28)	5.4 (4.88–9.47)	0.722
Tolclofos-methyl	12 (37)	0.08 (0.04–0.09)	16 (44)	0.08 (0.03–0.10)	0.512
Total	31 (97)	16.0 (4.23–30.97)	36 (100)	6.93 (3.31–25.66)	0.147

IQR: interquartile range