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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Res. 2022 Sep 13;215(Pt 2):114322. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2022.114322

Table 2.

Distributions of PFAS concentrations in 551 child serum samples.

PFAS a LOD (ng/mL) % detect 50th (5th, 95th) percentiles (ng/mL) p-value (vs. TD) b

All (n = 551) TD (n = 180) ASD (n = 190) DD (n = 103) OEC (n = 78) ASD DD OEC
PFOA 0.05 100 2.36 (0.93, 6.77) 2.58 (1.14, 6.50) 2.20 (0.91, 6.30) 2.22 (0.90, 9.45) 2.13 (0.90, 6.31) 0.01 0.10 0.13
PFOS 0.02 100 2.45 (0.93, 11.0) 2.58 (1.13, 10.7) 2.01 (0.81, 8.01) 2.62 (0.86, 11.0) 2.90 (0.99, 13.6) <0.01 0.35 0.99
PFHxS 0.02 100 0.64 (0.24, 3.41) 0.72 (0.28, 3.07) 0.59 (0.20, 3.05) 0.59 (0.23, 3.48) 0.71 (0.24, 4.24) 0.01 0.14 0.98
PFNA 0.02 100 0.85 (0.29, 2.60) 0.92 (0.41, 3.24) 0.71 (0.26, 2.49) 0.92 (0.33, 2.49) 0.93 (0.29, 2.42) <0.01 0.99 0.33
PFDA 0.02 99.6 0.16 (0.07, 0.48) 0.17 (0.08, 0.50) 0.14 (0.06, 0.49) 0.15 (0.07, 0.44) 0.15 (0.07, 0.34) <0.01 0.06 0.02
PFPeA 0.05 99.3 0.57 (0.22, 1.25) 0.56 (0.22, 1.14) 0.51 (0.20, 1.33) 0.62 (0.24, 1.44) 0.65 (0.22, 1.17) 0.67 0.02 0.04
PFHpA 0.02 96.0 0.20 (0.03, 0.87) 0.22 (0.04, 0.72) 0.23 (0.03, 1.00) 0.16 (0.02, 0.86) 0.18 (<LOD, 1.04) 0.65 0.04 0.02
PFUnDA 0.02 74.6 0.04 (<LOD, 0.15) 0.05 (<LOD, 0.16) 0.03 (<LOD, 0.13) 0.04 (<LOD, 0.13) 0.04 (<LOD, 0.18) <0.01 0.06 0.03
PFBS 0.02 29.6 <LOD (<LOD, 0.07) <LOD (<LOD, 0.06) <LOD (<LOD, 0.10) <LOD (<LOD, 0.06) <LOD (<LOD, 0.06) - - -
PFHxA 0.05 16.2 <LOD (<LOD, 0.28) <LOD (<LOD, 0.24) <LOD (<LOD, 0.43) <LOD (<LOD, <LOD) <LOD (<LOD, 0.15) - - -
MeFOSAA 0.02 81.1 0.12 (<LOD, 1.64) 0.12 (<LOD, 1.45) 0.10 (<LOD, 1.56) 0.14 (<LOD, 2.26) 0.13 (<LOD, 2.14) 0.06 0.24 0.66
EtFOSAA 0.02 17.1 <LOD (<LOD, 0.07) <LOD (<LOD, 0.07) <LOD (<LOD, 0.06) <LOD (<LOD, 0.07) <LOD (<LOD, 0.10) - - -
a

PFDoDA and PFOSA, which were detected in 4.2% and 0.7% of the samples, respectively, were excluded from the table

b

P-values from the Wilcoxon rank-sum test were not calculated for PFAS that were detected in less than 30% of the samples.