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Maternal hair cortisol concentrations across pregnancy and the early postpartum period in a Puerto Rican sample

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Hair cortisol is a noninvasive, long‐term biomarker of human stress. Strengths and weaknesses of this biomarker as a proxy measure of perinatal stress are not yet well understood. Hair cortisol… Click to show full abstract

Hair cortisol is a noninvasive, long‐term biomarker of human stress. Strengths and weaknesses of this biomarker as a proxy measure of perinatal stress are not yet well understood. Hair cortisol data were collected from pregnant women in Puerto Rico to investigate maternal cortisol level variance across pregnancy.

Keywords: maternal hair; hair; hair cortisol; across pregnancy; cortisol concentrations

Journal Title: American Journal of Human Biology
Year Published: 2022

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