. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 1.

Published in final edited form as: Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2011 Sep 8;36(10):1513–1519. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2011.04.005

Table 1.

Main outcome measures and tests of differences between top vs bottom stress quartiles

	n	High Stress	Low Stress	p

Emotional eating (1–5 scale)	19	3.16 (1.39)	2.18 (0.95)	.05
Saggital diameter (cm)	31	20.92 (5.30)	18.24 (4.09)	.05
BMI	32	25.97 (4.26)	23.89 (3.24)	.04
Reactivity to lab stressor
Cortisol (mg/dL)	29	51.15 (89.48)	158.24 (183.13)	.03
Psychological stress (1–4 scale)	31	1.27 (0.46)	0.61 (0.65)	.05

Note: Standard deviations appear in parentheses