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Table 4 Geometric means (GM) and ranges of urinary analytes following adjustment by various methods (testing dataset)

From: Assessing urinary flow rate, creatinine, osmolality and other hydration adjustment methods for urinary biomonitoring using NHANES arsenic, iodine, lead and cadmium data

Urinary analyte, GM (range)

Unadjusted, μg/L

Creatinine-adjusted, μg/g creatinine

Osmolality-adjusted, μg/L, 734 mOsm/kg

ER, ng/hr

ERBW, ng/hr-kg

UFRA, μg/L, UFR 1 mL/min

UFRB, μg/L, UFR 1 mL/min

AsIMM

6.4 (2.9–105)

5.7 (1.3–55.6)

7.5 (2–82.4)

279 (18.5–3,921)

3.9 (0.2–64.8)

5.9 (2.2–92.4)

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I

161 (16.9–9,322)

143 (23.3–4,615)

188 (28.6–8,661)

7,024 (558–352,368)

97.5 (9.6–4,199)

140 (24.2–7,572)

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Pb

0.5 (0.08–14.3)

0.5 (0.06–16.1)

0.6 (0.06–17.5)

22.4 (0.8–1,042)

0.3 (0.008–13.9)

0.5 (0.04–15.4)

0.4 (0.03–15.9)

Cd

0.2 (0.04–4.8)

0.2 (0.03–2.6)

0.25 (0.03–4.9)

9.2 (0.5–97.5)

0.1 (0.006–1.5)

0.2 (0.02–3)

0.2 (0.02–2.2)