The role of stress and health behaviour in linking weight discrimination and health: a secondary data analysis in England.

While hair cortisol concentrations in Wave 6 were not significantly associated with depressive symptoms in Wave 7 ( table 4 ; path b figure 1 ), each one-unit increase in hair cortisol concentration (log pg/mg) was associated with 17% higher odds of subsequently reporting fair/poor self-rated health, which while not quite statistically significant (p=0.066) warranted further investigation as a potential mediator.

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