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Age, on the other hand, showed a clear trend toward a negative association with cognitive outcomes.

There was a borderline significant trend towards a higher proportion of patients receiving oral corticosteroid therapy in the COVID-19 group compared to the negative group—35 vs. 30 patients (χ 2 = 3.2, p = 0.051).

However, the occurrence of new strokes exclusively in the MMD subgroup suggests a possible trend toward more aggressive disease in idiopathic cases, although statistical confirmation was limited by the small sample size.

For comprehensiveness: DeepSeek V3 versus GPT 5 showed p < 0.001 and δ = 0.69, indicating a highly significant difference.

The composite dietary habits score presented an average value of 2.77 ( SD = 3.79), indicating a weak trend towards positive values on the scale.

showed a trend for lower recurrence and mortality rates in the embolization era cohort, with better radiological outcome at follow-up, but with no significant differences in complications and clinical improvement [ 20 ].

DM represents an important health issue, as its incidence has an increasing trend worldwide due to the obesity pandemic.

Both results are highly significant and suggest that both mean and peak CRP levels are strong prognostic indicators of survival.

Age demonstrated a positive trend with periodontal severity, with older individuals showing deeper pockets and greater attachment loss in both cohorts.

Chronic kidney disease also showed a strong trend toward significance, suggesting a clinically relevant association even though statistical significance was not reached.

The contingency test assessing remission in treated patients was not statistically significant (χ 2 = 1.26, p = 0.53), although the proportion for incomplete remission has a decreasing trend in relation to more complex treatments: 50% incomplete remission in the untreated group, 31% for patients treated with steroids only, and 17% for steroids and DMTs.

Input data modality showed a trend toward improved performance with multimodal approaches (94.1% sensitivity) versus OCT-only methods (84.5% sensitivity), though this difference did not reach statistical significance ( p -value = 0.224).

Simple regression showed a negative trend for operative time with a 95%CI envelope suggesting a progressive per-case reduction.

Oxygen for Intermediate Risk Pulmonary Embolism (AIR) trial, fixed-dose supplemental oxygen was compared with ambient air in normoxic patients with APE but with RV dysfunction on echocardiography; there was a nonsignificant trend toward improvement in the RV to LV ratio—a measure of RV dysfunction—with supplemental oxygen.

Although ERM was not included in the clustering analysis due to the lack of an automated quantitative assessment, its prevalence confirmed its relevance in the morphological changes involving DME eyes and its distribution across clusters showed a trend towards a higher frequency in eyes with more advanced structural disorganization.

Although the current study demonstrated highly significant statistical associations between postoperative C-reactive protein (CRP) levels and delirium incidence, the analysis remains observational.

A clear trend is evident towards less frequent use of pain medication and lower doses in the block group compared to the control group with the exception of oxycodone.

Consequently, Type I error inflation is possible, and nominally significant findings, particularly at later time points, should be interpreted cautiously.

This can therefore be regarded as a positive trend.

Patients who underwent DH and OH showed no significant differences in pain intensity assessed using the VAS ( p = 0.15), although a nonsignificant trend toward higher pain scores was noted in the OH group ( Table 7 ).

Although the linear effect of d is only marginally significant, the combined contribution of d 2 and the interaction term d·α underscores the importance of accurate fracture reduction and correct alignment of the applied force vector.

However, despite this improvement, 7-dehydrocholesterol (7-DHC) and 8-dehydrocholesterol (8-DHC) levels remained markedly elevated and even showed an increasing trend over time.

Egger’s test for publication bias revealed a marginally significant bias, with an intercept of −9.86 (95% CI: −22.82 to 3.10) and a two-tailed p -value of 0.082, suggesting that publication bias may have modestly influenced the findings.

Dislocations Dislocation rates were a frequently reported outcome, with a clear trend emerging.

In subgroup analysis by tumor size in each tumor type, a numerical trend toward improved RFS was observed in patients with tumors ≤3 cm than those with tumors >3 cm ( Supplementary Figure S1A,B ).