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. 2021 Nov 23;9:669022. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.669022

Table 2.

Descriptive statistics of hair cortisol concentrations of all participants and stratified by sex.

Hair cortisol concentrations (pg/mg hair)
All
(n = 419)
Boys
(n = 191)
Girls
(n = 228)
10th Percentile 1.53 1.41 1.65
25th Percentile 2.10 1.88 2.32
Median 2.98 2.69 3.31
75th Percentile 4.38 3.88 4.70
90th Percentile 6.10 6.10 6.11
GM (95% CI) 3.13 (2.90, 3.38) 2.95 (2.61, 3.30) 3.30 (2.99, 3.63)

CI, confidence interval; GM, geometric mean.