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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychiatry Res. 2017 Jan 26;262:328–332. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2017.01.006

Table 2.

Blood Markers of Acute Stress

During the TSST MBSR SME p-value*
pre post change pre post change
 HPA axis markers, mean (SD)
 Cortisol AUC 913 (252) 761 (290) −152 (256)†† 1040 (383) 951 (430) −89 (328) 0.38
 ACTH AUC 1979 (916) 1688 (646) −290 (541)†† 2148 (1145) 2348 (1778) 200 (792) 0.007
 Cytokines, mean (SD)
 TNF-alpha AUC 480 (247) 417 (204) −64 (284) 317 (186) 390 (235) 73 (188) 0.033
 IL-6 AUC 157 (145) 120 (114) −37 (156) 63 (47) 96 (70) 33 (62)† 0.036

p-value of time × treatment type in ANOVA

†

within-group comparison of pre-post scores with p<0.05,

††

within-group comparison of pre-post scores with p<0.01