Table 10.

Pairwise comparisons of hormones shown in Tables 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 (P values, bold <0.05).

	Cortisol female and male	Prolactin female and male	TSH female and male	fT4 female and male	fT3 female and male	FSH male	LH male	Testosterone male
Overall effect	<0.001	0.054	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
Ascent
BC1 vs PR	0.001	0.016	0.240	<0.001	<0.001	0.159	<0.001	0.751
C2 vs PR	0.971	0.953	0.594	<0.001	0.096	<0.001	0.046	0.271
C3 vs PR	0.015	0.464	<0.001	<0.001	0.009	0.100	0.009	1.000
C2 vs BC	0.001	0.994	1.000	1.000	0.967	0.393	1.000	0.387
C3 vs BC1	<0.001	1.000	<0.001	0.009	1.000	0.999	1.000	0.997
C3 vs C2	0.484	0.999	<0.001	0.076	0.864	1.000	1.000	0.018
Descent
PO vs C3	0.008	0.823	<0.001	<0.001	0.122	0.046	0.077	1.000
PO vs C2	0.887	1.000	0.008	<0.001	0.652	<0.001	0.275	0.104
PO vs BC2	0.536	0.940	0.980	<0.001	1.000	0.746	0.985	<0.001
Acclimatization
BC1 vs PR	0.001	0.016	0.240	<0.001	<0.001	0.159	<0.001	0.751
BC2 vs PR	0.079	0.451	0.074	<0.001	0.161	0.936	0.492	0.006
BC2 vs BC1	<0.001	0.999	0.017	0.009	<0.001	0.999	0.550	0.839
Long term effect
PO vs PR	1.000	1.000	0.012	0.945	0.059	1.000	0.998	0.991

Data are adjusted for sex (Prolactin), SaO₂ (fT3, Testosterone) and paO₂ (TSH). Sidak adjustment for multiple comparisons was considered.