Table 1.
Metals | Minimum | 25th percentile | Median | 75th percentile | Maximum |
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Metals included in primary analysis | |||||
As () | 1.09 | 4.50 | 5.81 | 8.09 | 325.97 |
Cd () | 0.14 | 0.26 | 1.07 | ||
Co () | 0.39 | 0.59 | 0.98 | 7.51 | |
Hg () | 0.62 | 1.02 | 2.12 | 16.10 | |
Ni () | 1.94 | 2.88 | 4.38 | 34.91 | |
Pb () | 0.50 | 1.59 | 3.69 | 37.89 | |
Tl () | 0.03 | 0.07 | 0.14 | 0.59 | |
Metals additionally evaluated in exploratory analysisb | |||||
Mo () | 14.9 | 42.9 | 56.8 | 80.7 | 359.3 |
Sb () | 0.08 | 0.12 | 0.67 | ||
Sn () | 0.27 | 0.49 | 0.97 | 26.03 |
Note: As, arsenic; Cd, cadmium; Co, cobalt; Hg, mercury; LOD, limit of detection; Mo, molybdenum; Ni, nickel; Pb, lead; Sb, antimony; Sn, tin; Tl, thallium.
Values below the LOD were imputed to the LOD divided by the square root of 2 for all statistical analyses.
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