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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Adv Neonatal Care. 2023 Nov 9;23(6):583–595. doi: 10.1097/ANC.0000000000001112

Table 4.

Relationships between variables and effect size of biologic measures of stress

Spearman’s rho Significance (2-tailed) Intervals (2-tailed)
Lower Upper
Cortisol T1 and Cortisol T2 −0.41 0.16 −0.79 0.19
Cortisol T1 and Oxytocin T1 −0.06 0.80 −0.51 0.42
Cortisol T1 and Oxytocin T2 −0.28 0.35 −0.73 0.33
Cortisol T1 and % DNAm T1 0.06 0.79 −0.40 0.50
Cortisol T1 and %DNAm T2 0.42 0.13 −0.16 0.78
Cortisol T2 and Oxytocin T1 0.13 0.69 −0.49 0.67
Cortisol T2 and %DNAm T1 0.50 0.08 −0.83 0.08
Cortisol T2 and %DNAm T2 0.40 0.20 −0.80 0.24
%DNAm T1 and %DNAm T2 0.33 0.24 −0.26 0.74
%DNAm T1 and Oxytocin T1 −0.38 0.11 −0.72 0.10
%DNAm T1 and Oxytocin T2 0.61 0.02* −0.87 −0.08
%DNAmT2 and Oxytocin T1 −0.43 0.14 −0.80 0.17
%DNAm T2 and Oxytocin T2 −0.28 0.38 −0.75 0.37

Oxytocin and cortisol are reported in pg/ml

*

=p < 0.05