Hair-Normalized Cortisol Waking Response as a Novel Biomarker of Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis Activity following Acute Trauma: A Proof-of-Concept Study with Pilot Results
Figure 1
Scatterplot showing the relationship between unadjusted cortisol waking response (a) and hair-normalized cortisol waking response (b) with concurrent scores on the pain catastrophizing scale. Both correlations are significant at the level.