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In people with burnout, light therapy showed a trend in reducing the symptoms more compared to a waiting list group [ 7 ].

Studies from SEAR have shown an increasing trend in the prevalence of hypertension [ 9 ].

Strengths and limitations In this paper, we showed a trend over a five-year study period.

The treatment of water showed a trend towards a protective effect but this was not statistically significant (OR 0.31 (0.09–1.04), p = 0.06).

EMR motor vehicle occupants show an increasing trend and in 2015 are approximately 3-fold higher on average compared to globally.

[ 21 ] suggested an increased risk of suicidal ideation in a high BP group, after adjusting for other types of physical conditions and mental disorders, although the risk was marginally significant (odds ratio [OR] = 1.3, 95% CI, 0.89 to 1.19).

However, its influence deserves further elaboration: a national level BBR reveals a statistically insignificant negative relationship with health care expenditure; yet, when this is adopted at a supranational level, or at both levels combined, the effect becomes considerably significant, at 6 and 8% respectively.

When stratified by sex and age group, the statistical significance of community-level effects were weakened and some showed borderline significance, but there was no difference in direction and size.

The costs and time required for intervention development and set up is likely to be significant.

HIV prevalence among FSW in Guigang City fell into two periods, one with an increasing trend (2008–2011) and one with a decline (2012–2015).

Some differences were also found to be marginally significant in terms of PA participation among other motivational profiles.

Xiu-Li and Wang (2008) [ 11 ] found that the ageing of the eastern, central and western regions could be characterized as “high, medium and low”, respectively, with the differences between regions and provinces in the eastern region demonstrating a decreasing trend, although the overall inter-provincial differences were broadened.

Despite a significant reduction in CMU-attributable disease, there was an increasing trend for the burden of disease attributable to DRs, LPA, and MRs in the country.

This is a favorable trend as compared to a previous European survey that found the smoking prevalence to be higher among medical students than the general population [ 8 ].

Among those who were unemployed, the two older groups were less likely to report unmet needs than the youngest group, but the results did not quite reach statistical significance.

Although studies based on large sample size have many advantages, marginally significant effects observed in such studies typically mean that the predictive effect of the exposure is quite modest [ 75 ].

Results Breakpoint analysis revealed an estimated breakpoint around the year 2013 for the proportion of HBP patients, the following year there was a decreasing trend, however it was not significant.

There was a nearly significant interaction between attitude towards quitting smoking and moderate versus high education (OR of interaction = 0.49, 95% CI: 0.25, 0.96, p = 0.038 > α adjusted = 0.025), as well as a nearly significant interaction between attitude towards quitting smoking and moderate versus low education (OR of interaction = 0.46, 95% CI: 0.24, 0.90, p = 0.024 > α adjusted = 0.017).

Even though dengue epidemics varied across the years, there was an increasing trend of dengue over time in Pakistan, suggesting a worsening situation since 2005 (Fig. 3 ).

For digestive conditions the difference between prevalence with and without resilience assets did not quite reach significance in those with no ACEs but was significant at other ACE counts (Fig. 1 ).

For Q1, unemployment presented a borderline significance.

Medians were slightly higher in informal urban areas, although only a borderline significant difference was found for women (Table 2 ).

Adjusted odds of quit status and medication use Unadjusted and adjusted results were similar (Table 2 ), although odds ratios comparing referral types were changed slightly, with marginally significant comparisons becoming non-significant and vice versa.

Although non-significant, there exists a clear trend in the strengthening of the association between perceived community safety and respiratory illness as residential distance to the environmental hazard gets smaller.

The individual associations within region A and region B are borderline significant.