Toxic stress, health and nutrition among Brazilian children in shelters

BMC Pediatrics

Table 2 Concentration of hair cortisol per age group of children residing at welfare shelters, Brazil, 2017

Age group	N	Cortisol (pg/mg)		p-value	Adjusted p-value ^†
Age group	N	Mean	Standard deviation	p-value	Adjusted p-value ^†
0 12 months	8	15.82	± 13.86	0.080	0.100
12 24 months	11	9.48	± 5.83
24 36 months	13	11.74	± 15.36
36 48 months	10	3.49	± 2.05
48 60 months	6	3.55	± 1.51
Total	48	9.16	± 10.83

† p-value adjusted for use of corticoids using ANCOVA. Cortisol as dependent variable
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