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Socioeconomic Status Is Associated With Stress Hormones

Sheldon Cohen, PhD, William J. Doyle, PhD and Andrew Baum, PhD

From the Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (S.C.); Department of Otolaryngology, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (W.J.D.); University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (A.B.).


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  		Figure 1. Association between composite (income + education) SES and saliva cortisol (area under the curve) averaged across 3 days of sampling. The y axis range corresponds to the 25th and 75th percentiles.

 

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  		Figure 2. Association between composite (income+education) SES and 24-hour urine epinephrine (A) and norepinephrine (B) averaged across two days of sampling. The y axis range corresponds to the 25th and 75th percentiles.

 




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