Association of serum cortisol level with severity of depression and improvement in newly diagnosed patients with major depressive disorder in Jimma medical center, Southwest Ethiopia

• Arefayne Alenko ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: arefeaynealenko@gmail.com, alenko.arefayne@ju.edu.et

  Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Jimma University, Institute of Health, Faculty of Medical Science, Jimma, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4508-0254

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• Yohannes Markos,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Jimma University, Institute of Health, Faculty of Medical Science, Jimma, Ethiopia

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• Chaltu Fikru,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Jimma University, Institute of Health, Faculty of Public Health, Jimma, Ethiopia

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• Eyasu Tadesse,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Jimma University, Institute of Health, Faculty of Medical Science, Jimma, Ethiopia

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• Lealem Gedefaw

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Sciences, Jimma University, Institute of Health, Faculty of Medical Science, Jimma, Ethiopia

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