Prenatal and childhood exposure to chlordecone and adiposity of seven-year-old children in the Timoun mother–child cohort study in Guadeloupe (French West Indies)

Table 2 Distributions of chlordecone, PCB153, and pp’-DDE concentrations in cord blood and the blood of the children at seven years of age

Concentration in µg/L		N	LOD	% detected	Min	Q1	Median	Q3	Max
In cord blood	Chlordecone	373	0.06	78.6	< LOD	0.07	0.21	0.38	29. 8
	PCB153	372	0.05	53.0	< LOD	< LOD	0.06	0.14	1.75
	pp’-DDE	372	0.05	83.6	< LOD	0.10	0.28	0.73	12.5
At 7 years (blood)	Chlordecone	446	0.02	71.7	< LOD	0.02	0.05	0.11	7.01
	PCB153	446	0.02	83.9	< LOD	0.04	0.07	0.12	1.29
	pp’-DDE	446	0.02	97.1	< LOD	0.09	0.19	0.42	26.4

LOD Limit of detection, Min Minimum, Q1 1^rst Quartile, Q3 3^rd Quartile, Max Maximum

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