>>10512068>>10512101>Indeed, increased perceived stress and elevated CRH together appeared to explain 20% of the variance in gestational age at birth.50 This is basically troll tier. Don't accuse me of being "suspect" when your own source BTFO's your allegations against me. You've identified that the topic is multifaceted, not that the issue is "attributed" to cortisol, not to mention that stress response may just simply be a factor of race itself (your study mentioned that with another study that "proposed" that's not the case, keyword proposed)...
My study also said marital status and BMI did not appear as though they had/would have any effect if they were investigated further. Those are well known to be correlated with cortisol levels.
You're comparing apples and oranges anyway. My study adjusted for deprivation which clearly means there would be low life stressors involved. Your study mention trends in a population, which of course is going to show higher stress indicators for blacks. This in effect would mean cortisol levels in my study should have been comparable, and the disparity still emerged. It's not definitive without actual bloodwork, but it should be a default presumption if you're factoring in BMI and deprivation already.
>your study is strange in that it explored factors that could influence gestation but no where did I see it mention Cortisol levels which is supposedly among the defacto contributors to changes in gestation.No it's not strange at all. Use your head. The sample size was 100k+. Do you really think they're going to take and analyze blood samples and "explore" them on every single person at the usual lab fee?
Further, it opined that unidentified "environmental factors" could explain the data and left it at that, which I argued was already unnecessary.
Your study also came out 4 years afetr the one I posted and the exact link (20%...) may not have been as well established.
