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Diurnal Cortisol Decline is Related to Coronary Calcification: CARDIA Study

Karen Matthews, PhD, Joseph Schwartz, PhD, Sheldon Cohen, PhD and Teresa Seeman, PhD

From the Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (K.M.); the Department of Psychiatry, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York (J.S.); the Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (S.C.); and the Division of Geriatrics, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California (T.S.).


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  		Figure 1. Probability of detectable coronary artery calcification by quartiles of diurnal slope of salivary cortisol adjusted for sex, race, treatment for diabetes, and age. p values refer to tests for whether the quartile group differs from the reference group.

 




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