High Levels of Perfluorooctane Sulfonate in Children at the Onset of Diabetes

Table 3

Serum concentration of PFOA and PFOS (ng/mL) in study population.

		Mean ± SD	Median	GM	value	Min	Max	25th	75th	95% CI
PFOA (ng/mL)					0.160
T1DM	25	0.53 ± 0.10	0.49	0.52		0.46	0.83	0.48	0.55	0.07–0.13
Control	19	0.50 ± 0.06	0.48	0.50		0.45	0.67	0.46	0.50	0.05–0.10
PFOS (ng/mL)					<0.001
T1DM	25	1.53 ± 1.51	0.95	1.09		0.48	6.68	0.50	1.84	1.18–2.10
Control	19	0.56 ± 0.16	0.49	0.54		0.47	0.93	0.48	0.50	0.12–0.23

GM: geometric mean; PFOA: perfluorooctanoic acid; PFOS: perfluorooctane sulfonate; SD: standard deviation; T1DM: type 1 diabetes.