“…In fact, significant correlations have been found between the end product of HPA axis, that is cortisol secretion, and body mass index (Joseph et al, 2017). Furthermore, cortisol awakening response (CAR), a measure of the activity of HPA axis as assessed by salivary cortisol levels immediately following wake up in the morning, has also recently been associated with sleep parameters (Devine &Wolf, 2016;Uçar, Özgöçer, & Yildiz, 2018), cardio-metabolic health (Kastaun et al, 2014), obesity (Incollingo Rodriguez et al, 2015). ANS activity, measured non-invasively by heart rate variability (HRV), that is beat-to-beat variation in heart rate, has been associated with sleep parameters (Tobaldini et al, 2013;Uçar et al, 2018), cardiac (Haensel, Mills, Nelesen, Ziegler, & Dimsdale, 2008) and metabolic problems (Stuckey et al, 2014).…”