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A highly significant association was found when postoperative pain was compared between non-anxious and anxious patients after adjusting age gender, type of surgery, and other comorbidities.

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

Analyzing the seropositivity according to the age groups shows that the seropositivity has an increasing trend with the increase in the age group.

There was an increasing trend in the use of adjuvant analgesics and morphine in preemptive and therapeutic analgesia.

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.

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

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.

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.

When Anti-HEV seroprevalence was compared to age, an increasing trend was observed but the result was not significant.

In our study, the mean bone alkaline phosphatase level increased with age, and we found a highly significant association between age and mean BALP.

It is not clear what causes the eruption of teeth intranasally; however, trauma, infection, radiation, and developmental defects may be significant factors in their etiology.

However, in the past 10 years, there is an increasing trend in the prevalence of GERD in Asian countries including India.

While coagulase-negative bacteria are not as virulent as Staphylococcus aureus, there has been an increasing trend for this organism to be associated with complications commonly known to occur with its more aggressive counterpart.

The mean hexagonality of cells also showed a decreasing trend with age.

Both ECOG score and cancer stage at diagnosis had highly significant p-values, <0.001 and 0.005, respectively.

Other variables that showed a trend with reduced odds of survival at 18 months of diagnosis but did not reach statistical significance were small cell lung cancer and advanced stage (II or III NSCLC or extensive SCLC).

As observed in other studies, we also observed a negative trend in the number of patients diagnosed with IBS undergoing colonoscopies inpatient as well as the average length of stay, which may demonstrate increased proficiency in understanding IBS and the risk of observation in this patient population, however, our trends demonstrated a continued increase in hospital costs [ 21 ].

A study within a university-based family medicine practice showed a trend toward better blood pressure control in the highest continuity tertile compared to the lowest; however, this trend did not reach statistical significance (-0.2 mmHg, p = 0.2) [ 20 ].

P-value < 0.05 was considered statistically significant and highly significant if < 0.001.

NAFLD is showing an increasing trend among obese patients every year.

[ 12 ], and a highly significant difference was observed between the groups with elevated serum levels in the CKD group, which were similar to the findings reported by Pandye et al.