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After adjustments for age and gender, borderline significant associations of the MTHFR C677T and MTRR A66G polymorphisms with T2D were observed under recessive (OR = 1.43, 95% CI: 0.98–2.10) and dominant (OR = 1.43, 95% CI: 1.00–2.06) models, respectively.

LogMEHP, logMEHHP and log∑5-DEHP increased the odds of leiomyoma after multiple logistic regression analysis with borderline significance, which is likely attributable to the small sample size.

No association was found between travel companionship and intent to purchase sexual services, though travelling alone (OR = 2.8) was somewhat significant.

While age was not associated with intent to engage a sex worker, relationship status (OR = 3.9) and prior experience with sex workers (OR = 17.7) were highly significant.

Introduction Despite a decreasing trend, the widespread use of psychoactive substances by young people continues.

Another study [ 20 ] states that adjusted odds ratio per 100 ppb increase in indoor TVOCs were slightly significant for upper respiratory syndrome, stuffy nose, dry throat and lower respiratory syndrome, non-specific syndrome, tiredness, anger and dizziness.

DEHP Altered Serum Levels of Thyroid Hormones After exposure to DEHP, THs in serum demonstrated a decreasing trend at 3 M and an increasing trend at 6 M on the whole.

Inclusion of fish consumption frequency of the mother during pregnancy as an independent variable resulted in the selection of fish consumption as significant, while the two variables were marginally insignificant but still with a positive coefficient with the KIDS score.

The association with DQ was significant in Model 1 ( Table 3 ) and marginally insignificant when fish consumption was included as an independent variable, though the coefficient was close to significance ( Table 4 ).

Discussion In Malaysia, the food service industry has shown an increasing trend of hiring foreign labourers to work as servants, stewards, and cooks to prepare foods.

Joint estimation of trimester-specific effects suggested that associations with Cd levels for ponderal index ( p int = 0.02) were significantly different across trimesters, and differences for effects across trimesters for birth weight were marginally significant ( p int = 0.08) in girls.

The overall incidence rates showed an increasing trend compared with 2005 (2.5 cases per 10,000 patients-days) [ 23 ] and 2008 (4.1 per 10,000 patients-days) [ 24 ].

Since then the construction of enclosed communities has become an important trend in how cities are growing in the U.S. and other parts of the world [ 24 ].

Table 1 showed that the prevalence of dyslipidemia in non-snorers was 32.0% and showed a trend of rising in snorers with increasing levels of snoring intensity as represented by 38.7% in the low group, 41.8% in the moderate group, 45.3% in the strong group, and 48.9% in the very strong group.

Race/ethnicity and store characteristics may be significant factors in participants’ brand choices.

Borderline significant association was observed between the LEPR gene polymorphism (rs1137101, rs1137100, rs6700896, and rs8179183) and the increased risk of CVD with considerable heterogeneity under the allelic model, and the overall pooled OR (95% CI) was 1.10 (0.99, 1.22).

Association of Indices of Body Composition with Abnormal Metabolic Phenotype Was Differentially Distributed in Different Age Groups The impact of BMI and body fat % on abnormal metabolism showed an increasing trend throughout the age groups, reaching a peak in the elderly with OR values of 2.34 and 1.98, while the waist circumference increased 68%, 50%, and 128% of the risk with each SD increment in young males, the middle aged, and the elderly males, respectively.

The impact of factors related to MUHNW shows a decreasing trend with advancing age in females and disparities of factors (BMI, body fat %, skeletal muscle %, and body water %) associated with the MUHNW phenotype in the elderly was noticed.

This may be significant in the context of the Licensing Act (2003) which introduced late night and extended licenses, leading to greater temporal availability across the country, although there is some evidence to suggest that the impact of this legislation on public health and disorder may have been to temporally displace rather than increase alcohol-related harm [ 41 , 42 ].

[ 40 ] demonstrated a marginal trend for higher HDL levels in the intervention group at six months compared to controls.

However, in Medicago sativa , especially in the Tereza variety, there was an evident trend toward higher total content of BA, histamine, tyramine, and cadaverine.

Further, the study elucidates which component aspects of experiential avoidance may also be important; while no significant ordered effects were observed in total MEAQ score, a significant trend was observed in the repression/denial dimension of experiential avoidance.

A study in Pakistan showed an increasing trend of seropositivity with the mother’s education levels among children aged 12–59 months [ 16 ].

In addition, classmates and school teachers exert fairly significant influences on adolescent smoking or quitting behaviors [ 25 , 26 ].

Although disagreement was observed between the groups for men in some time periods, with borderline significance. 4.1.