Table 4.

Correlation of cortisol and cortisone with other hormone parameters in treatment-naïve CD patients. Statistically significant values are presented in bold.

	Cortisol		Cortisone
	r†	P	r†	P
LH (U/L)	−0.2239	0.4016	−0.2503	0.4066
FSH (U/L)	0.0339	0.9020	0.0220	0.9493
E2 (pg/mL)	−0.2107	0.4499	−0.2168	0.4990
SHBG (nmol/L)	−0.5324	0.0775	−0.0500	0.9116
ACTH (pg/mL)	0.4640	0.0454	0.7344	0.0017
DHEAS (µmol/L)	0.5364	0.0939	0.7167	0.0369
Saliva AUC, pmolxt(n)/L
TS	0.4294	0.0986	0.4786	0.0735
A4	0.5941	0.0172	0.6893	0.0057
11KT	0.1863	0.4727	0.4176	0.1089
11OHA4	0.5049	0.0408	0.6529	0.0074

^†Spearman’s correlation coefficient.