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Table 1 Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient (Spearman’s ρ) between maternal (Ma) PFAS, child (Ch) PFAS and total duration of breastfeeding (BF) in 999 singleton mother-child pairs in the Odense Child cohort

From: Association between prenatal or early postnatal exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances and language development in 18 to 36-month-old children from the Odense Child Cohort

 

MaPFOS

MaPFOA

MaPFHxS

MaPFNA

MaPFDA

ChPFOS

ChPFOA

ChPFHxS

ChPFNA

ChPFDA

BF

MaPFOS

1.00

          

MaPFOA

0.59*

1.00

         

MaPFHxS

0.53*

0.45*

1.00

        

MaPFNA

0.62*

0.65*

0.44*

1.00

       

MaPFDA

0.40*

0.42*

0.28*

0.62*

1.00

      

ChPFOS

0.35*

0.20*

0.28*

0.28*

0.21*

1.00

     

ChPFOA

0.19*

0.40*

0.22*

0.34*

0.26*

0.75*

1.00

    

ChPFHxS

0.20*

0.14*

0.31*

0.16*

0.14*

0.86*

0.74*

1.00

   

ChPFNA

0.14*

0.16*

0.15*

0.30*

0.30*

0.80*

0.75*

0.72*

1.00

  

ChPFDA

0.13*

0.15*

0.12*

0.22*

0.27*

0.63*

0.60*

0.52*

0.80*

1.00

 

BF

-0.14*

-0.14*

-0.02

-0.08*

0.02

0.59*

0.60*

0.61*

0.55*

0.40*

1.00

  1. *p < 0.05 using Spearman’s rank correlation test
  2. Abbreviations: PFOS, perfluorooctane sulfonic acid; PFOA, perfluorooctanoic acid; PFHxS, perfluorohexane sulfonic acid; PFNA, perfluorononanoic acid; PFDA, perfluorodecanoic acid; Ma, maternal; Ch, child; BF, total duration of breastfeeding