Correlations of DEHP metabolites among multiple biological samples
| Spearman correlation coefficient (p Value) | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Covariate | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| 1. MEHHP in maternal blood (ng/mL) | 1 | 0.443 (<0.001) | 0.330 (0.001) | 0.335 (0.001) | 0.346 (0.010) | −0.069 (0.484) | 0.418 (<0.001) | −0.221 (0.027) | 0.029 (0.774) | 0.343 (0.010) |
| 2. MEHHP in maternal urine (µg/g creatinine) | 1 | 0.310 (0.002) | 0.404 (<0.001) | 0.357 (0.004) | −0.155 (0.118) | 0.941 (<0.001) | −0.317 (0.001) | −0.054 (0.577) | 0.340 (0.007) | |
| 3. MEHHP in cord blood (ng/mL) | 1 | 0.280 (0.052) | 0.430 (0.001) | −0.058 (0.566) | 0.397 (<0.001) | −0.339 (0.001) | −0.163 (0.108) | 0.442 (0.001) | ||
| 4. MEHHP in placenta (ng/g) | 1 | 0.431 (0.001) | −0.061 (0.540) | 0.418 (<0.001) | −0.177 (0.080) | 0.150 (0.110) | 0.425 (0.001) | |||
| 5. MEHHP in newborn infants’ urine (µg/g creatinine) | 1 | 0.127 (0.354) | 0.382 (0.002) | −0.105 (0.454) | −0.082 (0.525) | 0.960 (<0.001) | ||||
| 6. MEOHP in maternal blood (ng/mL) | 1 | −0.155 (0.118) | 0.424 (<0.001) | 0.006 (0.954) | 0.079 (0.569) | |||||
| 7. MEOHP in maternal urine (µg/g creatinine) | 1 | −0.319 (0.001) | −0.057 (0.556) | 0.380 (0.002) | ||||||
| 8. MEOHP in cord blood (ng/mL) | 1 | 0.032 (0.757) | −0.133 (0.342) | |||||||
| 9. MEOHP in placenta (ng/g) | 1 | −0.154 (0.233) | ||||||||
| 10. MEOHP in newborn infants’ urine (µg/g creatinine) | 1 | |||||||||
DEHP, diethylhexyl phthalate; MEHPP, mono-(2-ethyl-5-hydroxyhexyl) phthalate; MEOHP, mono-(2-ethyl-5-oxohexyl) phthalate.