Table 4

- Correlation between BDE and participant characteristics.

BDEs	Age		BMI		Residing years		Fish and fish Products		Meat and poultry		Milk and milk products		Eggs
BDEs	R	P-value	R	P-value	R	P-value	R	P-value	R	P-value	R	P-value	R	P-value
BDE-47	-0.03	0.79	0.1	0.43	0.03	0.80	0.09	0.44	-0.21	0.07	-0.04	0.74	-0.39	<0.01^*
BDE-99	-0.03	0.82	0.2	0.09	-0.14	0.23	-0.01	0.90	-0.18	0.12	0.06	0.64	-0.07	0.56
BDE-100	0.04	0.76	-0.04	0.71	0.05	0.70	0.12	0.33	-0.01	0.96	0.08	0.50	-0.05	0.66
BDE-153	0.13	0.28	0.15	0.20	-0.11	0.36	0.07	0.55	-0.1	0.41	0.03	0.77	-0.18	0.014^*
∑PBDEs	0.02	0.88	0.19	0.11	-0.01	0.94	0.01	0.95	-0.23	0.05^*	-0.05	0.66	-0.31	0.01^*

Data presented as spearman correlation (R).

↵^* Significant at p<0.05, BMI: body mass index, BDE: Polybrominated diphenyl ethers