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Published in final edited form as: Gastroenterology. 2009 Sep 6;137(6):1954–1962. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2009.08.058

Table 3.

Summary measures of cortisol response

	IBS (36)	Control (40)	EAL (37)	No EAL (39)
AUC_g (μg·min/dL, SD)	24.4(18)	22.1(13)	28.1(17)^*	18.7(13)
AUC_m (μg· min/dL, SD)	12.2(12)	11.2(11)	14.2(12)^*	9.3(11)
Rate of decline (ng/dL·min, SD)	5.6(6)	5.2(5)	6.7(6)^*	4.1(5)

p < 0.05 compared to No EAL..