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Table 3 Correlations among PFOA, PFOS and PFHxS

From: Concentrations of persistent organic pollutants in maternal and cord blood from the maternal-infant research on environmental chemicals (MIREC) cohort study

Maternal plasma (1st trimester)

Spearman correlation

Maternal (1st trimester): Cord Plasma

Spearman correlation

PFOA: PFOS

0.56

PFOA: PFOA

0.67

PFOA: PFHxS

0.50

  

PFOS: PFHxS

0.53

  
  1. Correlations between maternal and cord blood for PFOS and PFHxS not presented since more than 70 % of the observations were undetected