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Table 2 Hair & nail arsenic concentrations and their correlations with water arsenic concentrations

From: Association between arsenic exposure and plasma cholinesterase activity: a population based study in Bangladesh

Water arsenic exposure

n

Hair arsenic concentration

Nail arsenic concentration

  

[μg/g (Mean ± SD)]

Spearman r

[μg/g (Mean ± SD)]

Spearman r

Low (< 129)

44

1.83 ± 3.00

0.413**

3.51 ± 4.41

0.421**

Medium (130-264)

50

4.08 ± 2.60

0.489**

6.32 ± 5.62

0.384*

High (> 265)

47

9.74 ± 10.13

0.464**

12.51 ± 9.13

0.499***

All subjects

141

5.27 ± 7.06

0.524***

7.51 ± 7.64

0.541***

  1. Here *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01 and ***p < 0.001 are from Spearman correlation coefficient test
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