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Hemoglobin and platelets follow a decreasing trend in relation to the increasing severity of CKD, and statistically significant differences were found across the categories of severity (p-value<0.05).

However, prompt administration of thrombolysis within 30 minutes of arrival in late arrivals, i.e., more than three hours, did show a significant trend towards less post-infarct angina, less LV dysfunction, and less heart failure.

From 2004 till 2016, a negative trend of eye cancer was observed, with a parallelism of trends between males and females.

Moreover, ocular cancer showed a positive trend in males and a negative trend in females for the period between 2005 and 2016.

Clinically most apparent symptoms of COVID-19 include fever and cough, which in some patients show an increasing trend but are completely non-apparent in patients who present with an asymptomatic course of disease [ 5 ].

Mean age had a positive trend on the pooled standardized mean difference, suggesting that the effectiveness of the PPIs on depression seems to decrease with age.

In tandem with this finding was a positive trend in hypertension development when compared to BMI 14 years prior.

One study investigated the link between high childhood BMI and suicidal behavior based on the presumption that individuals with high BMI values showed a trend of increased depression, a known predictor of suicidal behavior [ 35 ].

Results revealed an increasing trend based on BMI (BMI <25= 1.00, 25-29.9= 1.18, and >30= 1.66).

Conclusions A giant hiatal hernia is a rarely encountered entity with an apparent trend towards atypical presentations in elderly female patients.

Although patients with tear showed a trend towards greater improvement than patients without tear (Figure 1B ), this difference was only statistically significant at 12 months in this population (Table 4 ).

[ 6 ] observed a highly significant difference in tibial component rotations between their test groups, with patients with anterior knee pain averaging 6.2° internal rotation compared with those in the control group with 0.4° external rotation.

The oral route resulted in significantly greater cocaethylene formation than smoking (34% ± 20% versus 18% ± 11%, respectively) and showed a trend toward significance for greater formation of cocaethylene compared to even intravenous administration.

Although breast carcinoma shares clinicopathological and prognostic features in both genders, there are some dissimilarities reported in the literature pertaining mainly, but not limited to, tumor biology, stage at presentation, and a decreasing trend after the age of 50 years [ 3 - 6 ].

Suggestive significance for P-value 0.05<P<0.10, moderately significant for P-value 0.01<P £ 0.05, and strongly significant for P-value P£0.01.

The number of cases showed an increasing trend with 0.78% in 2011 to 1.26% in 2017.

Introduction Globally, diabetes mellitus is among the most prevalent chronic illnesses, and its burden is in an increasing trend.

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.

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.

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

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 ].

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 ].

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.