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Table 1 Characteristics of the study population a

From: Associations between cadmium exposure and neurocognitive test scores in a cross-sectional study of US adults

 

N

(%)

 

N

Median

(IQRb)

Sex

  

Urinary Cadmium (μg/L)

5572

0.42

(0.19 - 0.82)

Male

2548

(45.7)

    

Female

3024

(54.3)

Urinary Creatinine (mg/dL)

5547

137

(79–197)

Race-Ethnicity

  

Age (in years)

5572

36

(27–45)

Non-Hispanic White

1900

(34.1)

    

Non-Hispanic Black

1753

(31.5)

Education (in years)

5538

12

(10–14)

Mexican

1685

(30.2)

    

Other Race

234

(4.2)

Poverty Income Ratio

5152

1.98

(1.02 - 3.36)

Exam Given in Spanish

  

Serum Cotinine (μg/L)

5269

0.57

(0.13 - 105)

No

4408

(86.6)

    

Yes

681

(13.4)

Blood Lead (μg/dL)

5388

2.8

(1.6 - 4.6)

Missing

483

     

Smoking Status

  

NES2 Test Scores

   

Never Smoker

2851

(51.2)

SRTT

4848

229

(209–255)

Former Smoker

1039

(18.7)

SDST

5021

2.67

(2.29 - 3.20)

Current Smoker

1681

(30.2)

SDLT

   

Missing

1

 

trials-to-criterion

4845

5

(3–8)

   

total-error-score

4911

4

(2–10)

  1. a study population values, not weighted for oversampling.
  2. b interquartile range.