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From: Association between phthalate exposure and accelerated bone maturation in Chinese girls with early puberty onset: a propensity score-matched case–control analysis

Figure 2

Bone age (BA) advancement in tertiles of the (a) low molecular weight mPAEs, ΣLMW, ΣHMW, and ΣmPAEs; and (b) high molecular weight mPAEs and ΣDEHP. The degree of BA advancement in the highest MEP tertile was statistically higher than that in the lowest MEP tertile (P < 0.05), as indicated by the asterisk (*). ΣDEHP: sum of the creatinine-corrected concentrations of MCMHP, MEHP, MEOHP, MEHHP, and MECPP. ΣLMW: sum of the creatinine-corrected concentrations of MBP, MMP, MiBP, and MEP. ΣHMW: sum of the creatinine-corrected concentrations of ΣDEHP and MBzP. ΣmPAEs: sum of the creatinine-corrected concentrations of all of the mPAEs.

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