Table 3.

Predicted participant-specific elimination rates and estimated half-life using adjusted generalized linear mixed models with random intercept for participants and random slope for time stratified by variables of interest

	Adjusted A Elimination Rate			Adjusted A Half-Life
Stratified Variables	Median	25th Percentile.	75th Percentile.	Median	25th Percentile	75th Percentile
Initial Measurement B
<75th Percentile (i=1487)	0.0582	0.0538	0.0610	11.90	11.36	12.87
≥75th Percentile (i=487)	0.0518	0.0452	0.0569	13.37	12.18	15.15
Sex
Male (i=1004)	0.0619	0.0581	0.0661	11.20	10.49	11.94
Female (i=970)	0.0504	0.0462	0.0526	13.75	13.15	14.99
Age at exposure
16 – 25 years (i=551)	0.0443	0.0437	0.0457	15.65	15.17	15.86
25 – <50 years (i=991)	0.0567	0.0514	0.0606	12.23	11.41	13.47
≥50 years (i=432)	0.0673	0.0573	0.0725	10.29	9.54	12.10
Body Mass Index C
<75th Percentile (i=1480)	0.0573	0.0537	0.0607	12.09	11.41	12.91
≥75th Percentile (i=494)	0.0536	0.0466	0.0556	12.94	12.42	14.85
Smoking
Never (i=1097)	0.0513	0.0482	0.0545	13.51	12.67	14.36
Former (i=342)	0.0645	0.0574	0.0681	10.74	10.18	12.07
Current (i=535)	0.0646	0.0603	0.0684	10.72	10.13	11.49

^AModels were adjusted for all covariates (age at exposure, sex, BMI, and smoking history) from the main model with the exception of the stratified variable

^BThe 75^th percentile for the log initial PBB measurement was 1.046

^CThe 75^th percentile for Body mass index was 28.3