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Depressive Symptoms Are Associated With Blunted Cortisol Stress Responses in Very Low-Income Women

From the University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (H.M.B.); the University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA (L.C.F.); the University of California, Berkeley, Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica, Berkeley, CA (P.J.G.); and Mexico University of California, San Francisco, CA (N.E.A.).

View larger version (19K): [in a new window]   Figure 1. The figure on the left reflects the raw data, unadjusted for covariates such as time since awakening and age. The figure on the right reflects the simple slopes of the predicted values of cortisol by depressive symptoms (46). Both figures demonstrate the relative blunted cortisol reactivity in women with higher CES-D scores (CES-D = 35).