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Published in final edited form as: Int J Psychiatry Med. 2016 Apr;51(3):246–257. doi: 10.1177/0091217416652382

Table 2.

Infant Cortisol at Baseline and Change in Infant Cortisol Post-Stressor

Outcome	Variable		Statistic^a	p-value
Infant cortisol at baseline	Feeding technique	Breast fed Bottle fed	0.85(0.15) 0.51(0.17)	0.14
	Presence	Mom present for blood draw Mom not present	0.87(0.16) 0.51(0.17)	0.13
	Gender	Female Male	0.82(0.18) 0.61(0.14)	0.38
	Mom's oxytocin		−0.12	0.51
	Mom's cortisol		0.68	<0.0001
Change in infant cortisol^*	Baseline cortisol		−0.09	0.61
	Feeding technique	Breast fed Bottle fed	0.33(0.19) 0.09(0.20)	0.39
	Mom present for feeding	Mom present for blood draw Mom not present	0.32(0.20) 0.11(0.20)	0.47
	Gender	Female Male	0.58(0.21) 0.03(0.16)	0.045
	Mom's oxytocin		−0.06	0.69
	Mom's cortisol		−0.02	0.73
	Mom's change in cortisol		−0.14	0.36

models adjusted for baseline cortisol

for categorical variables, mean(SE) is reported for groups; for continuous variables, Pearson's correlation coefficients are reported