Environmental Health

Table 4 Associations between urine biomarkers of chemical exposure and current eczema in adult participants

From: Exposure to environmental phenols and parabens, and relation to body mass index, eczema and respiratory outcomes in the Norwegian RHINESSA study

	Sex: male vs female			Current eczema			Interaction^c
	∆/OR	CI	p	∆/OR	CI	p	p
Sum of paraben^a	-0.71	(-0.85,-0.56)	< 0.001	-0.24	(-0.43,0.05)	0.01	0.4
Methylparaben^a	-1.76	(-2.10,-1.42)	< 0.001	-0.62	(-1.06,0.18)	0.006	0. 7
Butylparaben^b	0.12	(0.07,0.19)	< 0.001	0.53	(0.28,1.01)	0.05	NT
Propylparaben^a	-2.24	(-2.61,-1.87)	< 0.001	-0.70	(-1.22,0.18)	0.009	0.8
Ethylparaben^a	-1.11	(-1.42,-0.80)	< 0.001	-0.33	(-0.76,0.09)	0.12	0.09
Benzophenone-3^a	-1.52	(-1.94,-1.10)	< 0.001	-0.11	(-0.78,0.55)	0.7	0.9
Bisphenol S^a	-0.06	(-0.19,0.07)	0.4	-0.10	(-0.28,0.08)	0.2	1.0
Bisphenol F^a	-0–14	(-0.35,0.06)	0.2	-0.16	(-0.48,0.16)	0.3	0.7
Bisphenol A^a	0.15	(0.00,0.31)	0.05	-0.00	(-0.25,0.24)	1.0	0. 2
2,4- DCP^a	-0.06	(-0.19,0.08)	0.42	-0.06	(-0.27,0.15)	0.4	0.2
2,5 –DCP^b	1.79	(1.16,2.75)	0.01	0.88	(0.49,2.1.60)	0.7	0.6
Triclosan^b	0.65	(0.40,1.06)	0.08	0.75	(0.36,1.59)	0.5	0.4
Triclocarban^b	0.58	(0.23,1.46)	0.3	1.74	(0.54,5.67)	0.2	0.7

^aMultiple linear or ^blogistic regression including sex and current eczema adjusted for BMI, IgE, age, smoking, and time of day of urine sampling; ^c Interaction term between sex and current eczema. NT (not testable); no men with both current eczema and butylparaben in urine

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