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

Table 4

Results of multivariate linear regression analysis on PFOS and PFOA levels in serum.

	PFOS			PFOA
	All population ( 44)	T1DM ( 25)	Controls ( 19)	All population ( 44)	T1DM ( 25)	Controls ( 19)
SE	1.21	1.35	0.15	0.08	0.09	0.06
()	0.43 (0.18)	0.63 (0.40)	0.64 (0.41)	0.35 (0.12)	0.50 (0.26)	0.63 (0.39)
value	0.269	0.117	0.332	0.549	0.435	0.380
Intercept
Coeff.	1.01	2.84	0.41	0.71	0.85	0.42
SE	1.97	2.58	0.50	0.14	0.18	0.21
value	0.613	0.285	0.430	<0.001	<0.001	0.069
Age
Coeff.	0.13	0.43	0.17	−0.24	−0.07	−0.20
SE	0.16	0.19	0.25	0.16	0.21	0.25
value	0.404	0.035	0.523	0.143	0.751	0.449
BMI -score
Coeff.	−0.11	−0.21	−0.01	0.02	−0.23	0.43
SE	0.17	0.20	0.29	0.17	0.22	0.29
value	0.507	0.306	0.968	0.889	0.322	0.172
TC
Coeff.	0.82	0.02	0.44	−0.20	−0.86	0.12
SE	0.38	0.60	0.70	0.39	0.67	0.72
value	0.040	0.972	0.544	0.614	0.219	0.864
HDL-C
Coeff.	−0.34	−0.14	−0.70	−0.10	0.09	−0.20
SE	0.24	0.38	0.39	0.25	0.42	0.39
value	0.172	0.719	0.097	0.692	0.834	0.618
TG
Coeff.	−0.44	−0.47	0.47	−0.14	−0.07	0.09
SE	0.19	0.27	0.29	0.20	0.30	0.30
value	0.029	0.099	0.141	0.496	0.804	0.753
LDL-C
Coeff.	−0.74	−0.04	−0.24	0.22	0.75	0.19
SE	0.37	0.61	0.62	0.38	0.68	0.63
value	0.054	0.946	0.706	0.559	0.288	0.765

-BMI: -score body mass index; HDL: high-density lipoprotein cholesterol; LDL: low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; PFOA: perfluorooctanoic acid; PFOS: perfluorooctane sulfonate; SE: standard error; TC: total cholesterol; TG: triglycerides; T1DM: type 1 diabetes.