Table 2.

Cortisol, BMD, and psychiatric measures

	HC	HA	AN	P values
				HC vs. HA	HC vs. AN	HA vs. AN
Cortisol
Mean 12-h pooled cortisol (μg/dl)	7.6 ± 0.4	9.4 ± 0.9	11.2 ± 0.9	0.04	<0.0001a	0.09
Bone
BMD (g/cm2)
AP spine	1.04 ± 0.02	0.92 ± 0.03	0.83 ± 0.03	0.005a	<0.0001a	0.05
Lateral spine	0.83 ± 0.02	0.72 ± 0.02	0.63 ± 0.03	0.001a	<0.0001a	0.02a
Total hip	0.99 ± 0.03	0.85 ± 0.02	0.80 ± 0.03	0.002a	<0.0001a	0.19
Z-scores
AP spine	−0.12 ± 0.19	−1.04 ± 0.29	−1.86 ± 0.28	0.01a	<0.0001a	0.06
Lateral spine	0.38 ± 0.23	−1.02 ± 0.27	−2.18 ± 0.33	0.0006a	<0.0001a	0.02
Total hip	0.31 ± 0.23	−0.72 ± 0.19	−1.15 ± 0.22	0.004a	<0.0001a	0.17
Psychiatric measures
HAM-D	1.1 ± 0.4	6.6 ± 1.2	13.3 ± 1.2	<0.0001a	<0.0001a	0.0007a
HAM-A	1.5 ± 0.5	7.5 ± 1.1	11.3 ± 1.3	<0.0001a	<0.0001a	0.05a

Results are means ± sem. 

^aP < 0.05 after correcting for multiple comparisons using Tukey-Kramer.