… For the purpose of the study, cortisol values presented in SI … respiratory and urinary tract
infections and other common … and an increase in circulating free cortisol. Because older assays …

… between cortisol level and severity of COVID-19 infection. … agent and determine the systemic
inflammatory response.6 … levels of cortisol were reported using median and IQR values…

… Nor were delta values or percentage change in saliva … to infection symptoms or general
health/well-being. It should be noted that this study measured self-reported symptoms of infection …

… of the response to systemic inflammation and secondary infection. Some patients could …
The mean value calculated from the three blood samples were approximately 6 µg/dl higher …

… as its robust predictive and prognostic value. NLR should be … valid biomarker of sepsis and
systemic infection, on a cohort … surgery as well as after cortisol infusion in experiments on …

… , or active infection at the time of HVPG measurement were excluded. … Parameters that
conferred prognostic value in univariate … Plasma levels of serum total and free cortisol and cortisol …

… there is an increase in the values of several salivary analytes … infectious diseases increase
cortisol, especially free cortisol [… in humans such as systemic lupus erythematosus, possibly …

… of bacterial infections in patients with RAI than in those without. Patients with RAI showed a
higher degree of systemic … Salivary cortisone was used to measure the amount of free cortisol …

… Patients who were suspected to have SARS-CoV-2 infection had a … systemic glucocorticoid
treatment, or who had cortisol … of the cortisol assay at this high range, these values indicate …

… individual salmon and the solid line represents the median value for each group. The
significant differences for all figures are measured between the two infected groups. *P<0.05, **P< …