Table 3

Crude Pearson's correlation coefficients between concentrations of serum organochlorine compounds (ln HCB and ln PCBs in ng/ml), thyroid hormones, and liver enzymes

	Ln TSH	Total T4	Free T4	Ln AST	Ln ALT	Ln GGT
Ln HCB	−0.08	−0.28^3-165	0.02	0.10	0.17^3-151	0.34^3-165
Ln PCBs	−0.07^3-150	−0.01	0.09	0.03	0.05	0.19

↵3-150 p=0.05;
↵3-151 p=0.02;
↵3-165 p<0.001.
Ln=natural logarithmic transformation.