. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Nov 20.

Published in final edited form as: J Perinatol. 2019 May 20;39(7):941–948. doi: 10.1038/s41372-019-0385-y

Table 2.

Maternal salivary hormone concentrations by infant birth weight-for-gestational age category

Salivary hormones (ρg/mL)	Overall^†	SGA	AGA	LGA
Salivary hormones (ρg/mL)	GM (SD)	GM (SD)	GM (SD)	GM (SD)
Progesterone	399.6 (447.1)	435.5 (405.5)	393.8 (457.2)	370.1 (310.6)
Testosterone	24.1 (31.6)	30.4 (45.0)	23.1 (28.7)	20.5 (21.6)
Estradiol	48.8 (54.8)	52.7 (76.8)	47.8 (49.6)	59.8 (66.4)
DHEA	169.1 (337.0)	165.1 (255.1)	171.1 (353.1)	112.0 (122.3)
Cortisone	6232.6 (3635.5)	6262.1 (3430.1)	6197.4 (3680.4)	7487.2 (3315.4)
*Ratios*	Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)
Progesterone /Estradiol	11.8 (14.5)	14.4 (15.0)^*	11.4 (14.6)	7.9 (5.3)
Testosterone/Estradiol	0.6 (0.5)	0.7 (0.4)^**	0.6 (0.5)	0.4 (0.4)^*

P-value<0.10

^**

P-value<0.05, Mann-Whitney U test (rank score), SGA vs. AGA and LGA vs. AGA.

^†

Number of participants ranged from 481 to 504 for each hormone and ratio.