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Table 5 Amounts of toxic metals excreted through mother and infant urine

From: Cross-sectional assessment of infants’ exposure to toxic metals through breast milk in a prospective cohort study of mining communities in Ghana

Descriptive parameters	Heavy metals in urine, (mg/L)
	Pb		Cd		As		Hg
	Infant	Mother	Infant	Mother	Infant	Mother	Infant	Mother
Geometric mean	0.13	0.331	0.026	0.022	0.006	0.018	0.004	0.004
SD	0.234	0.277	0.048	0.049	0.005	0.02	0.003	0.004
95% CL (low)	0.076	0.267	0.015	0.011	0.005	0.013	0.003	0.004
95% CL (high)	0.184	0.395	0.037	0.034	0.007	0.022	0.005	0.005
Median	0.250	0.39	0.01	0.01	0.0019	0.02	0.00	0.00
Minimum	0.0049	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.0019	0.0019	0.00019	0.00019
Maximum	0.74	0.90	0.15	0.15	0.02	0.08	0.007	0.01

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