Circadian Profile of Salivary Melatonin Secretion in Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy

Table 2

Comparison of the curve-fitting and threshold-based (with a linear interpolation) methods—the DLMO50, DLMO25, and maximum and minimum melatonin concentrations.

	Average for the curve-fitting method	Average for the threshold-based method	value
DLMO50 (h)	22.0206	21.9499	0.9437
DLMO25 (h)	20.6897	20.8979	0.8415
Maximum melatonin concentration (pg/mL)	63.7445	67.5920	0.7816

Time in the decimal scale; Student’s t-test.