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Figure 3

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

Figure 3

The proportion of significantly advanced bone age (BA) between the tertiles of the (a) low molecular weight mPAEs, ΣLMW, ΣHMW, and ΣmPAEs; and (b) high molecular weight mPAEs and ΣDEHP groups. The proportion of significantly advanced BA in the highest MEP tertile was statistically higher than that in the lowest MEP tertile (P < 0.05). 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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