The impact of the 2019/2020 Australian landscape fires on infant feeding and contaminants in breast milk in women with asthma

Table 7 Bivariate analysis of landscape fire smoke exposure, and PAHs in breast milk samples (n = 56)

Exposure data available	Fluoranthene in breast milk sample			Pyrene in breast milk sample
(n = 56)	Detected (n = 2)	Not detected (n = 54)	p-values *	Detected (n = 4)	Not detected (n = 52)	p-values *
Average PM_2.5, µg/m^3a	30.3 (20.0, 40.6)	8.6 (6.8, 12.0)	0.026	23.3 (16.0, 33.6)	8.2 (6.7,11.9)	0.004
Peak PM_2.5, µg/m^3a	77.1 (56.8, 97.3)	14.1 (10.3, 18.4)	0.012	59.9 (39.8, 80.2)	13.8 (10.2, 17.1)	0.001
Total fire days^a, n	3 (2,4)	0 (0,0)	0.045	2 (1,3)	0 (0,0)	0.035
Maximum consecutive fire days^a, n	3 (2,4)	0 (0,0)	0.043	2 (1,3)	0 (0,0)	0.031

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