Circadian Profile of Salivary Melatonin Secretion in Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy

Table 3

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

	Median for curve-fitting method	Median for threshold-based method	value
Minimum melatonin concentration (pg/mL)	2.6433	0.7800	0.7239

Mann–Whitney U test.