Human Elimination of Phthalate Compounds: Blood, Urine, and Sweat (BUS) Study

Table 4

Distribution of parent phthalate concentrations in serum (SE) and sweat (SW) (𝜇g/g).

	SE-DBP	SW-DBP	SE-DEHP	SW-DEHP
𝑛	19	18	18	18
Mean	35.1	*	*	49.9
Std. Dev.	28.3	*	*	133
Median	37.6	*	*	15.5
Range	<8–79.0	<8–58.6	<8–35.0	<8–576

*For the 18 individuals who had their sweat tested for DBP, only 4 were above detection limit (8 𝜇g/L). Thus mean, SD and median are not reported for SW-DBP. Similarly for the 18 serum samples tested for DEHP only 2 were above the detection limit and mean, SD, and median are not reported.