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Published in final edited form as: Brain Behav Immun. 2021 Jan 28;93:206–213. doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2021.01.015

Table 2.

Estimates of indirect pathways linking perceptions of recent stress (PSS), cortisol slopes, and individual biomarkers of inflammation from exploratory hypothesis H1.

	Cortisol to Inflammation Path		Estimate of Indirect Path (PSS to cortisol to inflammation)
	Estimate, B	95%CI	Estimate, ω	95%CI	Standardized Estimate (ω_STD)

CRP	0.176	[0.007, 0.346]	0.001	[0.000, 0.003]	0.006
IL-6	0.220	[0.122, 0.338]	0.001	[0.0002, 0.003]	0.012
Fibrinogen	0.204	[0.062, 0.357]	0.001	[0.0001, 0.003]	0.008
E-Selectin	0.091	[−0.049, 0.229]	0.001	[−0.0003, 0.002]	0.004
ICAM-1	0.134	[0.000, 0.264]	0.001	[0.000, 0.002]	0.006