Table 6. The correlation between hormones, inflammatory variables, and menstrual distress with sprint-exercise intervention.

	MDQ	SF-MPQ	PGE2	PGF2α	Cortisol	Progesterone	estradiol	HsCRP
MDQ	1	0.788 **	0.515 **	0.576 **	-0.284	-0.377 *	0.409 **	0.312 *
SF-MPQ	0.788 **	1	0.367 *	0.493 **	-0.295 *	-0.394 **	0.427 **	0.361 *
PGE2	0.515 **	0.367 *	1	0.690 **	-0.155	-0.202	0.107	0.408 **
PGF2α	0.576 **	0.493 **	0.690 **	1	-0.164	-0.312 *	0.166	0.297 *
Cortisol	-0.284	-0.295 *	-0.155	-0.164	1	0.326 *	-0.261	-0.215
Progesterone	-0.377 *	-0.394 **	-0.202	-0.312 *	0.326 *	1	-0.129	-0.395 **
estradiol	0.409 **	0.427 **	0.107	0.166	-0.261	-0.129	1	0.121
HsCRP	0.312 *	0.361 *	0.408 **	0.297 *	-0.215	-0.395 **	0.121	1

The MDQ and SF-MPQ represent the menstrual distress and the short form McGill pain questionnaires, respectively.‘*’ and‘**’ indicates significant correlations between the variables (P < 0.05 and P < 0.01, respectively).