A p -value below 0.05 was considered statistically significant, and between 0.05 and 0.10 was considered a trend towards significance.
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Prenatal Environmental Exposure to Persistent Organic Pollutants and Reproductive Hormone Profile and Pubertal Development in Dutch Adolescents.
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Pubic hair stage correlated negatively with ages at onset of menarche, breast growth, and growth of pubic hair, and showed a negative trend with age at growth spurt ( Table 4 b).
reported that, based on visual inspection of their data, in 156 14-year-old boys on the Faroe Islands, higher prenatal PCB levels were associated with higher testosterone levels, but it did not reach statistical significance [ 19 ].
They reported a weak, marginally significant, association with higher FSH levels in 20 Taiwanese adolescents born to mothers having symptoms of ‘Yucheng’ oil disease or a history of consumption of contaminated rice oil, compared to 18 unexposed controls [ 16 ].