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A slight trend in the deterioration of OHRQoL by age was observed, but this remained statistically insignificant in all domains.

Variables that were significant (or borderline significant) in the univariate models were included in the multivariate regression model.

New high-value areas have continued to appear, showing a clear trend of expansion from the east to the central and western regions.

The results showed that the PM 2.5 concentration from the various monitoring sites in the five-year period showed a decreasing trend.

A registry-based study in Finland [ 147 ] found a positive trend in T1D incidence with levels of nitrate in drinking water.

Discrimination and prejudice based on radiation exposure differed between areas: the association with health literacy was marginally significant in the evacuation area but not in the non-evacuation area.

Figure 4 b shows the ratio of the PM 2.5 (fine) concentration to the PM 10 (coarse) concentration, and the daily hourly changes did not reveal a significant trend.

Comparing the mean scores obtained from methods M4–M6 (see Table 9 ), all the scores of accessibility show a decreasing trend, which indicates a need for improved accessibility when simultaneously considering the factors of distance-decay, demand population, and supplier capacity and loading.

Cultivated land showed a decreasing trend, especially from 2010 to 2014, and its area decreased rapidly, which could be result of effective implementation of the Grain to Green policy in Jiulong River basin [ 27 ].

NEPL and high interpreter use (>25% of hospital days) showed a trend for an even longer length of stay.

There seems also to be an increasing trend on aflatoxin M 1 (AFM 1 ) [ 65 , 66 ], though it still seems “underrated” given its relevance for infant and general public health.

The results on BC recurrence were of borderline significance.

Measured Outcomes Meta-Analysis and Meta-Regression The quantitative analysis evidenced a decreasing trend in the DMFT in the time series, regardless of HDI ( Figure 2 ).

Though group 2 and 3, again, hold an intermediate position between group 1 and 4, there is a slight trend that group 3 is more positive compared to group 2, especially on the items ‘Patient feels that professional is interested his person as a whole’ and ‘Patient feels able to self-manage’.

It is important to explore further the reason that only marginally significant decreases in disparities in out-of-pocket drug utilization and no changes in physician visits occurred post-ACA for Hispanic breast cancer survivors.

The distribution index interval for these two durations showed a decreasing trend as the duration increased.

We can see that although the river flow exhibited an increasing trend in general, the variations in the flow during the spawning period were not exactly the same.

From 2004 to 2008, technological progress gradually showed a trend toward labor.

As to air pollutants, there was a decreasing trend of concentration from 2014 to 2016.

However, when PCB was included in the model, the association between PFOS and the SHBG and LH attenuated and became only borderline significant.

The positive association between PCB and SHBG levels among the Faroese young men is consistent with a previous study of Faroese 14-years old boys where increased SHBG levels were observed at higher PCB exposure levels [ 38 ] and, albeit only of borderline significance, in the Faroese fertile men [ 24 ].

Streams from arid, temperate, and tropical climatic regions show a decreasing trend of DO with respect to the longitudinal profiles of main river flows.

Compared to the control group, the girls with violent behaviors also differed in this respect, but this difference reached only the level of a statistical trend; moreover, this tendency was lower compared to the girls with suicidal behaviors.

Following standardly performed disinfection with disinfection wipes that contain active ingredients such chlorhexidine digluconate and triclosan, the reduction of contamination to zero was achieved in 60.9% of mobile phones, but only in 16.7% of keyboards, which is a statistically, highly significant difference ( p ˂ 0.001).

The results showed that: (1) the TN showed an increasing trend in the early periods and exhibited a decreasing trend from 2004 to 2014; (2) the geographic and RS variables played more important roles in predicting TN distribution than did the other variables; and (3) changes in the fertilization and crop planting structure caused by soil testing and formulated fertilization techniques (STFFT—Soil Testing and Formulated Fertilization Techniques) as well as farmland protection policies influenced the spatiotemporal variability of TN.