Table 3.

Maternal stress over time among the women who visited the POP clinic, in association with neonatal hair cortisol and cortisone levels

Exposure category	n	Cortisol		Cortisone
		beta	95% CI	beta	95% CI
HAS
Low prenatally and low perinatally	36	Ref.		Ref.
High prenatally and low perinatally	11	− 0.09	− 0.30 to 0.12	− 0.14	− 0.29 to 0.02
Low prenatally and high perinatally	6	− 0.03	− 0.29 to 0.23	0.01	− 0.18 to 0.20
High prenatally and high perinatally	12	− 0.19	− 0.39 to 0.01	− 0.15	− 0.29 to − 0.01*
HDS
Low prenatally and low perinatally	50	Ref.		Ref.
High prenatally and low perinatally	2	− 0.09	− 0.36 to 0.19	− 0.18	− 0.38 to 0.03
Low prenatally and high perinatally	5	− 0.13	− 0.55 to 0.29	− 0.14	− 0.45 to 0.17
High prenatally and high perinatally	8	− 0.27	− 0.49 to − 0.05*	− 0.17	− 0.33 to 0.00*

Data are presented as Log10-transformed β (95% CI).

^*p < 0.05. HAS, Hospital Anxiety Scale; HDS, Hospital Depression Scale score.