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Table 2 Arsenic in breast milk at different time points

From: Availability of arsenic in human milk in women and its correlation with arsenic in urine of breastfed children living in arsenic contaminated areas in Bangladesh

Time point of measurement

Mean ± SD, μg/L

Median, μg/L (range)

10-90th percentile, μg/L

1 month of infants age, (n = 29)

1.12 ± 1.86

0.5 (0.5-8.9)

0.5 – 2.35

6 months of infants age, (n = 25)

0.78 ± 0.45

0.5 (0.5-2.32)

0.5 – 1.52

9 months of infants age, (n = 19)

0.70 ± 0.42

0.5 (0.5-1.68)

0.5 – 1.59