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Table 4 Hair selenium concentrations

From: Maternal hair selenium levels as a possible long-term nutritional indicator of recurrent pregnancy loss

 

Selenium (ppm) median

Range (ppm)

RPL n = 20

0.80

0.19-4.15

CONTROLS n = 23

0.68

0.43-3.76

  1. Mann Whitney U test 209.5 (p = 0.74). (Analysis excluding 5 women, 3 RPL and one control whose selenium concentrations fell below the limit of detection and one outlier in the RPL group who had used henna hair products).
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