Glass, Godwin, and Martin Publish Article in the American Journal of Human Biology on Cortisol Changes During Pubertal Development
Posted: 8/8/2024 (CSDE Research)
CSDE Affiliates Delaney Glass and Melanie Martin, along with CSDE Statistical Demographer and Training Director Jessica Godwin, recently published an article in the American Journal of Human Biology that examines pubertal development among girls from the Indigenous Qom community. In “Longitudinal Analysis of Cortisol Changes During Pubertal Development in Indigenous Qom Girls” they evaluate how the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis may be critical to meeting the energetic demands of pubertal development. In the study, the authors use Bayesian modeling to examine cortisol trends across puberty and test their association with pubertal timing using longitudinal data collected from Qom females ages 7-14 as part of the Chaco Area Reproductive Ecology (CARE) Program.