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. 2020 Nov 4;10:19050. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-75871-3

Table 2.

Collected biofluid samples overview.

Apocrine-dominant armpit sweat (AP) Eccrine-dominant lower back sweat (LB) Saliva before exercise (SBE) Saliva after exercise (SAE)
Total samples 25 7 47 40
Males 8 3 17 16
Females 17 4 30 24
Athletes 15 5 21 20
non-athletes 10 2 26 20
average cortisol (ng/ml) 2.40 1.21 5.70 5.27
Standard deviation (ng/mL) 2.33 0.49 6.35 6.71
Range (ng/mL) 0.64–10.84 0.70–1.88 0.65–26.40 0.50–30.72
Comparable AP, LB, SBE, and SAE samples 4
Comparable AP, SBE, and SAE samples 23
Comparable SBE and SAE samples 39