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Published in final edited form as: Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2013 Jul 26;38(11):10.1016/j.psyneuen.2013.06.032. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2013.06.032

Table 4.

Crude and adjusted correlations between total cortisol AUC and other cortisol features measured on the same day.

Feature	Unadjusted ^a		Partially adjusted ^b		Fully adjusted ^c
	Correlation (95% CI)	P-Value	Correlation (95% CI)	P-Value	Correlation (95% CI)	P-Value
Wake up (A)	0.39 (0.34 to 0.43)	<0.0001	0.36 (0.32 to 0.41)	<0.0001	0.36 (0.32 to 0.4)	<0.0001
Bedtime (H)	0.64 (0.61 to 0.66)	<0.0001	0.61 (0.58 to 0.64)	<0.0001	0.61 (0.58 to 0.64)	<0.0001
Early decline slope (C)	0.11 (−0.01 to 0.23)	0.076	0.11 (−0.02 to 0.24)	0.080	0.12 (−0.02 to 0.25)	0.086
Late decline slope (D)	0.21 (0.16 to 0.26)	<0.0001	0.19 (0.14 to 0.24)	<0.0001	0.18 (0.13 to 0.23)	<0.0001
Total AUC (E + F + G)	0.02 (−0.03 to 0.07)	0.50	0.03 (−0.02 to 0.08)	0.28	0.04 (−0.01 to 0.09)	0.13
CAR AUC (E)	0.44 (0.40 to 0.48)	<0.0001	0.42 (0.38 to 0.46)	<0.0001	0.42 (0.38 to 0.46)	<0.0001
Early decline AUC (F)	0.55 (0.52 to 0.59)	<0.0001	0.54 (0.5 to 0.57)	<0.0001	0.54 (0.50 to 0.58)	<0.0001
Late decline AUC (G)	0.99 (0.99 to 0.99)	<0.0001	0.99 (0.99 to 0.99)	<0.0001	0.99 (0.99 to 0.99)	<0.0001

Only adjusted for wake up time.

Adjusted for wake up time, age, sex, race/ethnicity.

Partially adjusted + diabetes status, smoking, use of beta blockers, body mass index, income, education, Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression scale (CES-D) score.