Serum and follicular fluid organochlorine concentrations among women undergoing assisted reproduction technologies

Table 2 Spearman correlation coefficients between organochlorine concentrations (ng/g) in follicular fluid (n = 72) and serum (n = 110)

	HCB	Oxy-chlordane	Trans-nonachlor	Mirex	p,p-DDE	p,p-DDT	PCB 118	PCB 138	PCB 153	PCB 180	ΣPCB
HCB		0.47	0.44	0.13	0.50	0.56	0.43	0.41	0.41	0.35	0.43
Oxychlordane	0.50		0.87	0.54	0.33	0.53	0.70	0.66	0.71	0.68	0.73
Trans-nonachlor	0.42	0.88		0.61	0.43	0.54	0.76	0.69	0.75	0.70	0.77
Mirex	0.09	0.46	0.51		0.24	0.50	0.41	0.51	0.60	0.63	0.59
p,p'-DDE	0.60	0.42	0.43	0.11		0.69	0.43	0.59	0.56	0.41	0.52
p,p'-DDT	0.60	0.57	0.63	0.32	0.72		0.52	0.61	0.64	0.58	0.64
PCB 118	0.38	0.59	0.62	0.33	0.35	0.56		0.78	0.80	0.68	0.86
PCB 138	0.52	0.62	0.62	0.37	0.55	0.65	0.79		0.95	0.81	0.93
PCB 153	0.52	0.61	0.62	0.41	0.47	0.63	0.79	0.94		0.92	0.97
PCB 180	0.43	0.58	0.60	0.45	0.33	0.56	0.70	0.80	0.93		0.90
ΣPCB	0.48	0.63	0.62	0.42	0.40	0.60	0.82	0.89	0.95	0.91

*Correlation coefficients above diagonal are for follicular fluid, below diagonal are for serum.

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