Recovery from Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa and Associations with Diurnal Patterns of Salivary Stress Hormones: A Case Report

Table 1

Healthy control group (𝑛=15) compared to case study Bella at baseline and when recovered at one year follow-up.

	Healthy controls		Bella
	Mean	SD	Baseline mean	𝑡	𝑃	𝑧𝐶𝐶	One year follow-up mean	𝑡	𝑃	𝑧𝐶𝐶
Awakening cortisol overall levels (mean in nmol/L)	36.37	(±10.70)	63.19*	2.43	0.02	2.51	45.10	0.80	0.22	0.82
Awakening cortisol dynamic (mean in nmol/L)	5.51	(±4.99)	8.80	0.65	0.26	0.67	5.27	−0.05	0.48	−0.05
Daytime cortisol overall levels (mean in nmol/L)	6.88	(±2.18)	11.30*	2.08	0.02	2.14	5.40	−0.66	0.26	−0.68
Daytime cortisol dynamic	0.69	(±1.32)	2.11	1.06	0.15	1.09	3.00	1.69	0.11	1.75
DHEA awakening levels (mean in nmol/L)	1.90	(±0.81)	3.64*	2.09	0.03	2.15	1.64	−0.31	0.38	−0.32
DHEA evening levels (mean in nmol/L)	0.53	(±0.30)	1.20*	2.07	0.03	2.17	0.78	0.10	0.46	−0.10
EDI-3 eating disorder risk	28.67	(±6.78)	40.00*	1.62	0.01	1.67	35.00	−1.16	0.13	1.20
EDI-3 drive for thinness	26.07	(±8.29)	38.00	1.39	0.09	1.44	32.00	0.69	0.50	0.72
EDI-3 bulimia	42.73	(±5.16)	41.00	−0.33	0.75	−0.34	41.00	−0.33	0.75	−0.34
EDI-3 body dissatisfaction	31.00	(±6.51)	48.00*	2.53	0.01	2.62	43.00	1.79	0.10	1.84
EDI-3 general psychological maladjustment	36.87	(±5.91)	49.00*	1.99	0.03	2.05	35.00	−0.31	0.38	−0.32
EDI-3 affective problems	39.82	(±4.45)	50.00*	2.18	0.03	2.27	35.00	1.09	0.30	1.14

^*𝑃<0.05 (indicates statistically significant difference to corresponding control value).