AMAP Greenland and the Faroe Islands 1997-2001
Birth weight
Spearman´s rho
P-values
All infants
(N=500)
Boys
(N=267)
Girls
(N=233)
All infants
(N=500)
Boys
(N=267)
Girls
(N=233)
Mercury
0.062
0.073
0.016
0.168
0.235
0.807
HCB
0.076
0.144*
-0.009
0.088
0.019
0.891
b-HCH
0.004
0.043
-0.024
0.931
0.483
0.715
PCB-118
0.103*
0.159**
0.041
0.021
0.009
0.537
PCB-153
0.043
0.107
-0.026
0.334
0.082
0.690
PCB-105
0.141**
0.202** 0.073
0.002
0.001
0.269
PCB-138
0.053
0.112
-0.015
0.239
0.066
0.821
PCB-156
0.052
0.113
-0.040
0.250
0.066
0.830
PCB-180
0.046
0.110
-0.025
0.309
0.074
0.699
SPCB
0.047
0.110
-0.022
0.290
0.074
0.733
Sum of three
mono-ortho
PCB
(105+118+156)
0.099*
0.157*
0.033
0.027
0.010
0.614
4,4-DDT
0.080
0.163**
-0.019
0.074
0.008
0.767
4,4-DDE
0.044
0.096
-0.013
0.328
0.119
0.848
Ratio
DDT/DDE&
0.087
0.183**
-0.036
0.053
0.003
0.586
Trans-
nonachlor
0.074
0.132*
0.004
0.100
0.032
0.951
* : Significant correlation (2-tailed significance)
** : Highly significant correlation (2-tailed significance)
& : Pearson correlation
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