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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Br J Sports Med. 2009 Oct 23;45(9):735–742. doi: 10.1136/bjsm.2009.064931

Table 2.

Mean, standard deviation, ICC and SEM comparing month to month consistency in absolute nadir (from the 6 days of menses) and peak (from the 8 post ovulatory days) sex hormone concentrations for all subjects and with anovulatory cycles removed.

Cycle 1 Mean (SD) Cycle 2 Mean (SD) ICC SEM
All Subjects (N=60)
Nadir (Menses) Values
  Estradiol (pg/ml) 37.5 (14.0) 35.4 (15.2) 0.58 9.8
  Progesterone (ng/ml) 0.6 (0.3) 0.6 (0.3) 0.67 0.2
  Testosterone (ng/dL) 22.6 (11.4) 20.2 (10.2) 0.60 7.2
  SHBG (nmol/l) 60.8 (24.2) 62.9 (23.6) 0.88 8.4
  FAI 1.3 (0.9) 1.1 (0.8) 0.78 0.4
Peak (Post Ovulatory) Values
  Estradiol (pg/ml) 208.7 (92.5) 209.0 (111.2) 0.56 73.6
  Progesterone (ng/ml) 14.6 (7.8) 13.9 (7.9) 0.44 5.9
  Testosterone (ng/dL) 49.2 (17.4) 48.7 (19.6) 0.71 10.5
  SHBG (nmol/l) 80.0 (30.1) 80.9 (33.8) 0.89 11.4
  FAI 2.9 (1.6) 2.8 (1.5) 0.82 0.7
Ovulatory Cycles Only (N=49)
Nadir (Menses) Values
  Estradiol (pg/ml) 36.0 (12.7) 34.3 (14.7) 0.48 10.6
  Progesterone (ng/ml) 0.6 (0.3) 0.6 (0.2) 0.66 0.2
  Testosterone (ng/dL) 22.6 (10.9) 21.0 (9.7) 0.60 6.9
  SHBG (nmol/l) 59.5 (23.6) 60.7 (22.2) 0.86 8.7
  FAI 1.3 (0.9) 1.2 (0.8) 0.82 0.4
Peak (Post Ovulatory) Values
  Estradiol (pg/ml) 214.1 (83.1) 211.1 (95.3) 0.38 74.8
  Progesterone (ng/ml) 16.5 (6.7) 15.7 (6.5) 0.41 5.1
  Testosterone (ng/dL) 48.5 (16.7) 46.6 (15.6) 0.73 8.6
  SHBG (nmol/l) 77.7 (28.4) 78.0 (31.5) 0.87 11.3
  FAI 3.0 (1.7) 2.9 (1.6) 0.85 0.7