Heavy Metals Accumulation in Water and Human Health Risk Assessment via the Consumption of Labeobarbus intermedius Samples from Borkena River, Ethiopia

Table 5

Pearson’s correlation matrix of heavy metals in water and fish tissue.

	Copper	Chromium	Cadmium
Water samples
Copper	1	−0.540	−0.563
Chromium	−0.540	1	0.674
Cadmium	−0.563	0.674	1
Fish muscle
Copper	1
Chromium	−0.069	1
Cadmium	0.173	0.673	1

Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).