AMAP Greenland and the Faroe Islands 1997-2001
Cohort 2 (N=168)¹
Cohort 3 (N=587)²
Arithmetric mean
(SD)
Geometric mean
Arithmetric mean
(SD)
Geometric mean
Trans-
nonachlor
157.8 (197.0)
78.1
151.4 (176.3)
96.3
p, p’-DDT
61.1 (70.4)
38.3
35.3 (42.3)
22.2
p, p’-DDE
1,310.1 (1,446.7)
856.1
848.9 (953.6)
591.9
DDE/
DDT*
31.07 (24.15)
HCB
70.2 (51.1)
58.4
44.8 (28.4)
38.6
b-HCH
38.5 (19.1)
27.5
23.6 (16.8)
20.7
Musk-
xylene
41.4 (26.2)
33.3
16.7 (22.1)
12.8
Source: 1: Steuerwald et al., 2000; 2:See section 6.2 in this report)
*
: normal distribution, therefore geometric mean was not calculated
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