مطالعه طولی از کورتیزول پایه در نوزادان: تنوع درون فردی، ریتم شبانه روزی و روند رشد و نمو

The question of how the intra-individual variability in basal cortisol affects assessments of cortisol in infancy is addressed. The aggregation of data with the goal of increasing the reliability of the assessments is shown to be inadequate for infant basal cortisol.