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Looking at femoral and tibial segments combined, our subsets of the younger population, aged 20–39 and 40–59, showed a trend towards the equivalency of these parameters with the ≥60 population ( Table 4 ).

Although few epidemiological studies are available on pediatric anaphylaxis, a recent Italian study reports an increasing trend in the last ten years in Italy relating to hospitalization for foodborne anaphylaxis, especially under four years of age [ 14 ].

ESS (−1.7(−3.6/0.1), p = 0.066) also showed a positive trend.

Immunological and inflammatory assessments showed a trend toward decreased lymphocyte counts in peripheral blood on days 1–7 in the PICS group than in the non-PICS group ( Figure 4 ).

Age at diagnosis and high crystal load at inclusion, which were nearly significant in the multivariate model, suggest that it is never too late in life and in the disease course to achieve optimal management.

Even though there was only a statistical trend, it was surprising, as this parameter was also expected to increase by the mechanisms mentioned above.

Current pain intensity was not considered in the following analyses because the correlation analyses revealed highly significant positive correlations between current global pain-induced disability and current pain intensity in this study population ( Table 2 ).

Stomach cancer showed an increasing trend of association in the higher HbA1c quintile (model 1, Ptrend = 0.044; model 2, Ptrend = 0.034).

Our study did not find an increase in BNP levels by DPP-4i, but there was a markedly significant decrease in this biomarker during follow-up time in both groups.

Second, although there was a numerical trend for lower C-reactive protein with DPP-4i, we could not find a statistically significant difference between groups in this marker of inflammation.

However, the early administration was not associated with improved patency of the IRA pre-PCI but showed a trend toward reducing adverse ischemic events post-PCI.

A cervical biopsy was performed if women had abnormal cytology results (e.g., atypical squamous cells of indeterminate significance or more severe lesions), positive HPV results, or abnormal results from colposcopy.

Our study showed a trend toward improved survival for ovarian cancer in Taiwan between 2002 and 2015.

When categorized into three groups according to the tertile of baseline serum NGAL (NGAL tertiles, 1st: 25.4 to 83.7 ng/mL, 2nd: 83.8 to 143.8 ng/mL, 3rd: 143.9 to 567.9 ng/mL), there was a significant trend toward higher serum NGAL levels with older age, hypertension, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, low ejection fraction, high C-reactive protein, higher contrast volume, multivessel coronary disease, larger number of stents, and longer stent length.

We observed a negative trend between DOAC’s treatment and endoscopic intervention.

Although not statistically significant, FMR etiology (HR-1.67, 95% CI 0.98–3.74, p = 0.07) displayed a numerical trend towards higher 1-year mortality.

Results of a meta-analysis that included 18 randomized clinical trials (RCTs) with more than 4000 OSA patients on CPAP therapy did not show a significant decrease of cardiovascular event risk compared with the control group but only a nonsignificant trend of lower rate of death and stroke [ 37 ].

A study of women with endometriosis treated by laparoscopic reported higher overall mental scores than their controls, near statistical significance [ 49 ].

0.6694; p = 0.2256) showed a trend toward being higher for the chronic compared with the acute subgroup, and while the diagnostic accuracy was significantly higher in the former subgroup (18.2397 vs. 4.2660; p = 0.0373).

Due to the popularity of CT lung carcinoma screening and an increasing trend of pulmonary segmentectomy, thoracic surgeons now face more cases of small tumors with an early disease status.

There was a clear trend—from the aorto-iliac towards only infrapopliteal segments—in increasing prevalence of diabetes (28.3% vs. 60.0%), heart failure (5.4% vs. 15.8%), renal failure (16.6% vs. 49.5%), polyneuropathy (4.6% vs. 17.9%) and CLTI stage of LEAD (8.6% vs. 74.0%).

Multivariate analysis showed approximating significance with p = 0.05. 3.4.

The above number of patients may be significant.

In 2000, there was an increasing trend of implantation of large diameter and hard bearing surface prostheses in THA, particularly metal-on-metal (MOM), with an estimated 1 million hips implanted worldwide [ 3 ].

Such Treg exhaustion was marked among the splenic lymphocyte population, and it was almost significant among the tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes.