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Psychosomatic Medicine 35:121-128 (1973)
© 1973 American Psychosomatic Society

Plasma Cortisol Levels and Behavioral States in Early Infancy

KATHERINE TENNES MA1 and DOUGLAS CARTER MD1

1 Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Medical Center, 4200 East Ninth Avenue, Denver, Colorado 80220

Address for reprint requests: Katherine Tennes, Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Medical Center, 4200 East Ninth Ave., Denver, Colorado 80220.

Plasma cortisol was determined on 40 full-term infants on the third day of life. The relationships between cortisol and sex, birthweight, Apgar score, circumcision, and behavioral state were examined. Plasma cortisol was found to correlate most closely with behavioral state. In three infants plasma cortisol was assessed at weekly or fortnightly intervals from one to twelve weeks of age. Cortisol levels were found to vary more closely with behavioral state at the time the blood sample was taken than with changes in chronic irritability.

Submitted on January 13, 1972
Revised on April 24, 1972




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