Table 2 Median pre- to 3-h post-exposure change in urinary OH-PAH metabolites for 24 firefighters assigned to attack and search (2 fires each, different tactic for each fire) stratified by fire-attack tactic

From: Firefighters’ absorption of PAHs and VOCs during controlled residential fires by job assignment and fire attack tactic

Attack tactic

n

OH-NAP

OH-PHE

1-PYR

OH-FLU

Interior

24

+382%

+657%

+342%

+160%

Transitional

24

+411%

+418%

+172%

+128%

p-valuea

 

0.229

0.052

0.091

0.008

  1. aBolded values are statistically significant at p < 0.05