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There is an increasing trend of Caesarean delivery and premature birth in comparison to the pre-pandemic era.

There is no significant correlation with MAYO pain scores at the time of pre-procedure but there is a highly significant positive correlation with the pain scores at 12th week and 24th week after the procedure, which signifies the role of age in treatment success.

However, there was a positive trend between TSH and prevalent psoriatic disease and FT4 and incident psoriatic disease.

The readmission rate revealed an increasing trend as the predicted risk increased (Table 7 , Figure 3), which confirmed that the model worked relatively well in the validation set.

The intragroup difference in the score was highly significant.

The probability of EBF by mothers with a college education or less (OR 2.3, 95% CI 1.3-4.3, p=0.007) and mothers who are unemployed (OR 2.5, 95% CI 1.4-4.9, p=0.002) were highly significant.

In recent times, there has been an increasing trend towards minimally invasive surgery performed with endoscopic techniques.

The variations are not entirely significant in all the joints of the thumb joint complex except in the first left interphalangeal joint.

After that, the difference in heart rate was highly significant between A versus B and A versus C.

The use of marijuana has doubled since 2002 as demonstrated in a study on an in-patient population with an increasing trend toward use in the older and sick population [ 2 ].

There was an increasing trend of prevalence among the illiterate, with a prevalence of 72%, with a frequent complaint of vaginal discharge (51.9%) [ 17 ].

(2014) [ 28 ] where the mean value of UPCR was 3.48, 3.92, 2.61, and 2.98 among the patients with severe hypertension (p=0.001), eclampsia (p=0.002), raised liver enzymes (p=0.02), and need for ICU support (p=0.02) respectively, and these findings were highly significant.

(2018) [ 41 ] have reported that the mean birth weight of neonates showed a decreasing trend as proteinuria increased above 300 mg; the birth weight of 2521 ± 640 gm in neonates born to women with proteinuria in the range of 300-1000 mg/day was significantly higher than 2230 ± 732 in those born to women with proteinuria >3000 mg/day.

According to WHO, an increasing trend in the aging population is expected during the next decade; hence the prevalence of hip fractures will continue to grow globally [ 1 ].

Early-stage FAI or ADDH was diagnosed in patients with ligamentum teres edema with a PPV of 92.7% which is quite significant.

The mean scores depict a decreasing trend for the combined as well as the individual cohorts with the highest mean score at Day 0 and the lowest at Day 60.

A p-value <0.05 was considered statistically significant and a p-value between 0.05 and 0.10 was deemed to be borderline significant level on all statistical analyses.

QL2 of patients in this study were comparable at all time points of evaluation and showed a decreasing trend attributable to the trend of functional and symptom scales, as seen in Figure 1 , and is discussed below.

Surprisingly, it also showed an increasing trend over time since the completion of radiotherapy (Figure 1 ).

This difference is highly significant, with a relative risk equal to six.

in their comparison of patients aged >90 to <90 showed a trend of higher mortality in the older groups albeit not statistically significant [ 16 ].

The association between variables was deemed not significant (NS), significant (S), and highly significant (HS) when the p-value was >0.05, <0.05, and <0.001, respectively.

However, there is an increasing trend towards early discharge/enhanced recovery protocol (ERP) after surgery [ 13 , 21 ].

KRAS mutations showed a trend toward right-sided tumors and peritoneal metastases.

and Haroon A et al., which observed an increasing trend in the usage of newer AEDs, such as levetiracetam, as compared to conventional AEDs such as sodium valproate and phenytoin [ 9 , 15 ].