Table 1.
Participant Characteristics and Adolescent Hair Cortisol Concentrations, Health Outcomes and Measures of the Environment Study, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2003–2019
| Characteristic | No. | % |
Hair Cortisol (pg/mg), Median (25th, 75th) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 205 | 100 | 2.4 (1.4, 5.5) |
| Child age, years | |||
| 11.0–12.0 | 65 | 31 | 2.4 (1.3, 5.2) |
| 12.1–13.0 | 108 | 53 | 2.3 (1.4, 7.0) |
| 13.1–14.0 | 32 | 16 | 2.6 (1.5, 4.6) |
| Child sex | |||
| Boys | 89 | 43 | 3.0 (1.7, 6.8) |
| Girls | 116 | 57 | 2.1 (1.3, 4.9) |
| Child race/ethnicity | |||
| Non-Hispanic White | 125 | 61 | 1.7 (1.2, 3.3) |
| Non-Hispanic Black | 68 | 33 | 7.3 (2.8, 15.8) |
| Another race | 12 | 6 | 2.0 (1.5, 2.7) |
| Maternal education | |||
| High school or less | 46 | 22 | 5.1 (1.7, 12.7) |
| Some college | 60 | 29 | 3.2 (1.4, 6.2) |
| College graduate | 99 | 48 | 1.8 (1.2, 3.3) |
| Household income, $ | |||
| <45,000 | 80 | 39 | 4.1 (1.6, 11.0) |
| 45,000–75,000 | 69 | 34 | 2.1 (1.3, 3.8) |
| >75,000 | 56 | 27 | 1.7 (1.3, 3.4) |
| Parity | |||
| 0 | 88 | 43 | 2.0 (1.3, 4.2) |
| 1 | 69 | 34 | 2.4 (1.6, 5.5) |
| >1 | 48 | 23 | 3.2 (1.5, 8.9) |
| Any hair product use in past 24 hours | |||
| No | 41 | 20 | 3.1 (1.3, 9.0) |
| Yes | 164 | 80 | 2.4 (1.4, 5.3) |