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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 17.
Published in final edited form as: Neurogastroenterol Motil. 2008 Aug 5;21(2):149–159. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2982.2008.01171.x

Table 2.

Summary statistics for ACTH (pg mL−1) and cortisol (µg dL−1)

Mean Maximum Minimum Total AUC Amplitude Acrophase
ACTH Controls 14.31 ± 1.4 50.74 ± 5.4 4.68 ± 0.6 20560 ± 1955 6.07 ± 0.8 09:03 ± 0:26
IBS 11.64 ± 0.9** 39.97 ± 3.3** 3.41 ± 0.3* 16717 ± 1346** 5.17 ± 0.5 07:53 ± 0:19*
Cortisol Controls 6.97 ± 0.5 19.28 ± 1.0 1.55 ± 0.2 9983 ± 701 4.24 ± 0.4 09:17 ± 0:19
IBS 7.50 ± 0.4 20.40 ± 1.0 1.79 ± 0.2 10745 ± 529 4.47 ± 0.3 08:34 ± 0:17**

Values are shown as mean ± SEM.

*

P < 0.05

**

P ≤ 0.1.