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24-hour individual cortisol profile (solid line).The smoothing curve (dotted line) is calculated to determine the minimum (nadir), the maximum (acrophase), the onset of the circadian rise, and the amplitude (50% of the difference between the acrophase and the nadir) of the cortisol profile. The black bar represents the sleep period.
