Prenatal and childhood predictors of hair cortisol concentration in mid-childhood and early adolescence.

<h4>Background</h4>Hair cortisol concentration (HCC) is an increasingly used measure of systemic cortisol concentration. However, determinants of HCC in children and adolescents are unclear because few prospective studies have been conducted to date.<h4>Study design</h4>We fo...

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Main Authors: Joshua Petimar, Sheryl L Rifas-Shiman, Marie-France Hivert, Abby F Fleisch, Henning Tiemeier, Emily Oken
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228769