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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Aug 17.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Sci Technol. 2021 Aug 4;55(16):11155–11165. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.1c01564

Table 1.

Distribution of specific gravity-corrected concentrations of phenols, parabens and TCC [ng/mL] in 760 urine samples (383 FMVs, 116 24-hour samples, 261 pools) collected from 233 pregnancies.

Compounds LOD [ng/mL] % detect All samples FMV Pool 24-hr FMV versus pools a FMV versus 24-hr a 24-hr versus pools a

Percentiles
5th 50th 95th 50th 50th 50th
BPA 0.8 59 <LOD 1.0 4.5 1.0 1.1 1.0 0.42 0.35 0.17
BPF 2.5 17 <LOD <LOD 9.9 <LOD <LOD <LOD - - -
BPS 0.5 14 <LOD <LOD 2.8 <LOD <LOD <LOD - - -
TCC 1.0 5 <LOD <LOD 2.8 <LOD <LOD <LOD - - -
TCS 15.0 32 <LOD <LOD 285.5 <LOD <LOD <LOD - - -
MEPB 0.5 96 0.6 38.9 388.0 36.2 41.4 48.9 0.78 0.60 0.58
ETPB 0.5 50 <LOD 0.7 44.3 0.7 0.8 0.7 0.90 0.54 0.54
PRPB 1.0 78 <LOD 8.3 98.6 8.5 7.8 8.2 0.34 0.94 0.43
BUPB 1.5 8 <LOD <LOD 7.5 <LOD <LOD <LOD - - -

Abbreviation: limit of detection (LOD), bisphenol A (BPA), bisphenol F (BPF), bisphenol S (BPS), triclocarban (TCC), triclosan (TCS), methyl paraben (MEPB), ethyl paraben (ETPB), propyl paraben (PRPB), butyl paraben (BUPB)

a

P-value from the Wilcoxon rank-sum test of the null hypothesis that two populations have the same distribution with the same median.