Figures & data
Table I. Demographic variables of study participants.
Figure 1. Salivary cortisol secretion in depressed patients (37 women and 15 men) and healthy controls (35 women and 15 men). Repeated measures ANCOVA (adjusted for smoking) revealed a group × sex interaction [p = 0.05]. Post hoc tests revealed significantly higher cortisol in depressed men than in healthy matched male controls [p = 0.01], whereas no significant differences were found between depressed and non-depressed women. DEP, depressed patients; HC, healthy controls. Lines represent group means, and error bars represent SEM.
![Figure 1. Salivary cortisol secretion in depressed patients (37 women and 15 men) and healthy controls (35 women and 15 men). Repeated measures ANCOVA (adjusted for smoking) revealed a group × sex interaction [p = 0.05]. Post hoc tests revealed significantly higher cortisol in depressed men than in healthy matched male controls [p = 0.01], whereas no significant differences were found between depressed and non-depressed women. DEP, depressed patients; HC, healthy controls. Lines represent group means, and error bars represent SEM.](/cms/asset/d74697b4-bc5f-4cb4-9e05-2c293d09531a/ists_a_582200_f0001_b.gif)