Table 2.

Descriptive statistics by element concentration, obese status, and menopausal status

Arsenic	Premenopausal women						Postmenopausal women
	N	Mean	Median	SD	Min	Max	N	Mean	Median	SD	Min	Max
Obese	41	0.028	0.017	0.044	0.008	0.261	88	0.023	0.022	0.012	0.008	0.086
Non-obese	35	0.022	0.019	0.011	0.007	0.048	103	0.020	0.017	0.012	0.007	0.090
Cadmium
Obese	42	0.019	0.016	0.019	0.003	0.092	88	0.110	0.012	0.655	0.002	6.144
Non-obese	36	0.026	0.017	0.030	0.002	0.169	104	0.020	0.011	0.029	0.001	0.209

^*Excluding concentrations that were below BEC

^**Mean, Median, Min. and Max. are shown in µg/L