Current smokers had a mean (± S.D). of 46 ± 46 hospitalization days in the year following HSCT, compared to means of 30 ± 31 and 26 ± 25 hospitalization days associated with former and never smoking, respectively (p=0.025).
When examining in more detail the differences between waves 1 and 2, t tests revealed four variables with significantly different means in wave 1 zip codes compared to means in wave 2 zip codes (table 2).
This is indicated by significantly shorter mean half-life at higher blood lipid TCDD concentrations (> 700 ppt) and higher TCDD mass in the body fat (> 7,000 ng) compared to means for the paired, lower body burden groups (Table 1).
All values represent means from treated samples compared to means from control samples (vehicle- or olive oil-treated wild type mice or DMSO-treated LX-2 cells), which were set to 1. Liver specimens were fixed in 4% paraformaldehyde (PAF) for 24 h, and then embedded in paraffin.
The diploid male colonies survived for a shorter time period under field conditions compared to the outbred and regular inbred colonies; a mean of only 1.5 (± 0.86) weeks, compared to means of 4.5 (± 0.54) and 3.4 (± 0.56) weeks respectively (F2,32 = 4.33, p < 0.05).
The 30 consequently women whose BMD was measured with both DXL and DXA technique had a mean T-score at heel of -2.7 SD, being lower compared to means for hip (total hip -1.4 SD and femoral neck -2.0 SD) and to lumbar spine (-1.3 SD, p < 0.001 for all comparisons as paired differences).
