Cortisol levels in pregnant women

MS project
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

ABSTRACT:
Cortisol is a hormone related to stress. We report on a study of 354 pregnant women, for whom cortisol was measured several times per day, on multiple days, both before and after delivery. We show the typical pattern by which cortisol fluctuates over the course of the day, and how the pattern varies before and after delivery.