Association between dioxin concentrations in breast milk and food group intake in Vietnam

Saito, Kae; Nhu, Dang Duc; Suzuki, Hiroyuki; Kido, Teruhiko; Naganuma, Rie; Sakakibara, Chiaki; Tawara, Kenji; Nishijo, Muneko; Nakagawa, Hideaki; Kusama, Kaoru; Dung, Phung Tri; Thom, Le Hong; Hung, Nguyen Ngoc

doi:10.1007/s12199-009-0106-9

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Table 4 Spearman correlation coefficients between dioxin concentrations in breast milk and food group intake

From: Association between dioxin concentrations in breast milk and food group intake in Vietnam

Food group	Sprayed area (n = 80)						Nonsprayed area (n = 42)
	TEQ-PCDDs		TEQ-PCDFs		TEQ-Total		TEQ-PCDDs		TEQ-PCDFs		TEQ-Total
	r	P value	r	P value	r	P value	r	P value	r	P value	r	P value
Cereals	−0.02	0.877	−0.12	0.281	−0.10	0.362	−0.08	0.606	0.16	0.304	0.05	0.745
Potatoes and starches	0.09	0.438	0.06	0.626	0.07	0.522	−0.01	0.949	0.16	0.314	0.07	0.673
Nuts and seeds	−0.14	0.211	−0.14	0.217	−0.15	0.185	0.19	0.226	0.18	0.250	0.20	0.207
Pulses	0.02	0.832	0.06	0.573	0.05	0.641	0.20	0.208	0.19	0.238	0.20	0.203
Soybean products	0.01	0.901	0.03	0.803	0.02	0.848	0.27	0.079	0.28	0.076	0.32	0.039
Dark-green vegetables	0.02	0.866	0.07	0.534	0.07	0.552	0.10	0.545	0.06	0.722	0.08	0.618
Yellow vegetables	−0.11	0.311	−0.16	0.148	−0.15	0.176	0.17	0.275	0.26	0.097	0.23	0.149
Other vegetables	0.05	0.690	0.10	0.359	0.11	0.354	0.02	0.923	0.09	0.583	0.07	0.653
Fruit and fruit juice	−0.05	0.648	−0.07	0.520	−0.07	0.538	0.00	0.996	0.20	0.213	0.11	0.484
Fats	−0.10	0.401	−0.12	0.275	−0.12	0.270	0.15	0.346	0.35	0.023	0.27	0.079
Vegetable oils	−0.07	0.537	−0.05	0.652	−0.06	0.608	0.06	0.723	0.30	0.051	0.21	0.188
Meat and meat products	−0.02	0.854	−0.01	0.949	−0.01	0.908	−0.04	0.786	0.13	0.418	0.06	0.693
Fish and fish products	0.03	0.807	0.14	0.222	0.10	0.397	0.19	0.237	0.10	0.549	0.15	0.344
Shellfish and shellfish products	0.00	0.989	−0.05	0.674	−0.03	0.801	0.07	0.681	0.31	0.048	0.23	0.148
Eggs	0.14	0.202	−0.02	0.882	0.06	0.586	−0.16	0.320	0.12	0.441	−0.03	0.838
Milk and dairy products	0.14	0.207	0.07	0.532	0.10	0.365	0.12	0.446	0.31	0.043	0.24	0.122
Sugars, confectioneries, soft drinks	−0.02	0.837	−0.06	0.572	−0.06	0.569	0.06	0.727	0.15	0.358	0.13	0.419
Alcohol beverages	0.11	0.324	0.05	0.651	0.09	0.446	0.05	0.754	0.15	0.335	0.10	0.531
Seasonings	−0.05	0.658	−0.07	0.520	−0.07	0.522	0.18	0.246	0.39	0.011	0.32	0.042

All data are log-transformed to improve normality
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