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Table 3.

Urinary metabolites in this study compared to previously published studies

Study	Population	ng/mL urine				Comments
Study	Population	2-Nap	∑ OH-Flu	∑ OH-Phe	1-OH-Pyr	Comments
Our study	Exposed miners, Sweden	3.89	0.36^a	1.29^b	0.31	Median conc
Alhamdow et al. (2021)	Healthy teenagers, Sweden	–	0.22^a	0.36^b	0.07	Median conc
Krais et al. (2021)	Short-term (3 h) exposure of diesel exhaust (PAHs 7.5 µg m^−3.)	2.7	0.2^a	0.4^b	0.1	Average conc
Kuusimäki et al. (2004)	Diesel-exposed garage workers, Finland	7.18 (4.85)^g	–	0.90 (0.61)^c,g	0.22 (0.15)^g	Average conc
Díaz de León-Martínez et al. (2021)	Miners, Mexico	2.54^d	1.57^e	3.34^f	1.80	Median conc
Hoppe-Jones et al. (2021)	Exposed firefighters, USA	19.0^d	0.76^e	1.18^f	0.24	Median conc

^aSum of 2- and 3-OH Flu

^bSum of 1,- 2-, 3- and 4-OH Phe

^cSum of 1,- 2-, 3-,4- and 9-OH Phe

^dSum of 1- and 2-Nap

^eSum of 2,- 3- and 9-OH Flu

^fSum of 1-, 2-, 4- and 9-OH Phe

^gOriginal values in μmol/mol creatinine; data were transformed into density-adjusted urine using a factor of 1.48 according to Carrieri et al. (2000).