Cortisol salivar na avaliação do eixo hipotálamo-hipofisário-adrenal em crianças saudáveis menores de 3 anos

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Authors' replyWe want to thank Dr. Silva Segundo for his interest in our recent paper and for the pertinent review on the utility of atopy patch tests (APT) for the diagnosis of IgE-mediated food allergies. Indeed, there is evidence that APT can be helpful in predicting outcomes of double-blind placebo-controlled food challenges. However, most of such studies have been carried out in children with atopic dermatitis or allergic gas- Table 1).The authors state that they were unable to locate reference salivary cortisol levels for children in the literature. For readers' information, we have included a summary of the previously published pediatric salivary cortisol literature (Table 1). Our group recently published salivary cortisol reference ranges for healthy children. 8 The range for morning cortisol was 0-25 nmol/L.

Depressão materna e concentração de cortisol de recém-nascidos em uma amostra brasileira

“…Infant salivary cortisol concentrations in our study were in the normal range described in the literature. In their review, Maguire and Cowell (2007) described concentrations in the range from 0 to 28 nmol/L. As expected, newborn were significantly higher than 4-month and toddlers levels (Gunnar & Donzella, 2002).…”