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. 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
Number of samples (%) OP concentration (μg/g) median(IQR) Number of samples (%) OP concentration (μg/g) median (IQR)
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