Figure 1.
Flow chart of this study (known phthalate concentrations of affected foods were obtained from two sources: the official website of Taiwan Food and Drugs Administration and the Kaohsiung City Bureau of Health (Wu et al., 2012)).
Table 1.
Characteristics and Clinical Findings of Study Children Categorized by Exposure Groups.
Table 2.
Information of Intake-Affected Foods among the 52 Exposed Children.
Figure 2.
The relationship between daily intake (mg/kg/day) of affected foods and selected endocrine hormones.
a) Spearman correlation between daily intake of affected foods and serum thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH); b) median daily intake dichotomized by analytical sensitivity (8 pg/mL) of serum estradiol (E2) levels (*Mann-Whitney U test).
Table 3.
Serum Thyroid Profiles and Estradiol Levels Categorized by Tolerable Daily Intake (TDI) of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and European Food Safety Authority among the 35 Exposed Children of Known Concentrations of Affected Foods and 8 Non-exposed Children.
Table 4.
Differences of Endocrine Hormone Levels in Serum Between 6 Months Follow-up and Baseline Categorized by Exposure Groups.