Table 4 Differences in Zearalenone and Deoxynivalenol levels in all studied breast milk by some mother-infant parameters*

Sampling time

0.001

0.021

 Visit 1

19

0.62 [0.52–0.72]^a

16.4 [12.0-20.8]^ab

 Visit 2

19

0.46 [0.36–0.56]^b

20.8 [16.4–25.2]^a

 Visit3

19

0.37 [0.27–0.47]^b

12.0 [7.6–16.4]^b

Maternal education

0.663

0.236

 < 8 years

30

0.47 [0.38–0.56]

14.9 [11.2–18.5]

 ≥ 8 years

27

0.50 [0.41–0.59]

18.1 [14.2–22.0]

Smoking status

0.435

0.539

 No smoke exposure or smoking

19

0.45 [0.34–0.55]

17.8 [13.2–22.4]

 Maternal smoking +/-environmental smoke

10

0.57 [0.42–0.72]

13.3 [6.9–19.7]

 Environmental smoke w/o maternal smoke

28

0.48 [0.39–0.57]

16.5 [12.7–20.4]

Birth order

0.819

0.170

 First child

24

0.48 [0.38–0.57]

14.2 [10.1–18.3]

 ≥ second child

33

0.49 [0.41–0.57]

18.0 [14.5–21.5]

Infant sex

0.008

0.593

 Male

42

0.44 [0.37–0.51]

16.8 [13.7–20.0]

 Female

15

0.62 [0.50–0.73]

15.2 [9.9–20.1]