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. 2019 Jun 18;13:592. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2019.00592

TABLE 1.

Average hormone levels and masculinity/femininity self-assessment for men and women.

Whole sample men women NC women OC Men vs. NC Men vs. OC NC vs. OC



(n = 89) (n = 89) (n = 60) F p F P F p
Testosterone (pg/ml) 105.58 ± 53.24 48.43 ± 20.92 37.62 ± 18.09 87.14 < 0.001 78.12 < 0.001 9.86 0.002
Estradiol (pg/ml) 2.76 ± 1.02 3.11 ± 1.15 3.31 ± 0.94 4.45 0.05 12.90 < 0.001 0.61 0.44
Progesterone (pg/ml) 65.58 ± 55.32 136.05 ± 116.63 62.96 ± 47.82 26.20 < 0.001 0.27 0.60 13.49 < 0.001
Masculinity (self) 6.49 ± 1.16 3.83 ± 1.39 3.08 ± 1.76 188.84 < 0.001 187.54 < 0.001 4.58 0.03
Masculinity vs. men 5.80 ± 1.30 2.26 ± 1.10 1.88 ± 1.04 372.11 < 0.001 333.84 < 0.001 2.40 0.12
Masculinity vs. women 7.52 ± 1.56 5.20 ± 1.74 3.98 ± 2.11 85.42 < 0.001 124.31 < 0.001 11.27 0.001
Femininity (self) 3.60 ± 1.66 6.02 ± 1.51 6.93 ± 0.95 263.11 < 0.001 183.05 < 0.001 16.63 < 0.001
Femininity vs. men 4.48 ± 1.98 7.30 ± 1.70 8.05 ± 1.24 102.27 < 0.001 139.13 < 0.001 8.65 0.004
Femininity vs. women 2.54 ± 1.57 5.31 ± 1.71 6.33 ± 1.56 126.75 < 0.001 192.63 < 0.001 12.38 < 0.001
TIV 1582 ± 115.53  1400 ± 99.46 1400 ± 107.73 127.53 < 0.001 98.58 < 0.001 < 0.01 0.97
WM 559.9 ± 47.87 486.8 ± 47.48 479.5 ± 49.81 0.62 0.43 1.25 0.81 0.70 0.80
GM 756.0 ± 55.15 694.7 ± 52.04 688.3 ± 55.40 1.58 0.21 4.12 0.08 9.88 0.006
HippocampusL 4.60 ± 0.33 4.27 ± 0.38 4.13 ± 0.40 0.97 0.33 6.82 0.03 5.18 0.04
HippocampusR 4.15 ± 0.34 3.86 ± 0.32 3.77 ± 0.30 < 0.01 0.98 2.98 0.18 5.94 0.06
MFG_L 1.38 ± 0.25 1.34 ± 0.25 1.35 ± 0.28 2.72 0.30 0.21 0.65 0.35 0.55
MFG_R 1.24 ± 0.25 1.29 ± 0.21 1.31 ± 0.26 19.22 < 0.001 9.69 0.004 < 0.01 0.98

Age was controlled in all comparisons. P-values were FDR-corrected. NC, naturally cycling. OC, oral contraceptive user. MFG, middle frontal gyrus. L, left; R, right. Significant effects are highlighted in bold font.