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Statistical significance was accepted at p ≤ 0.05 whereas p -values between 0.05 and 0.1 indicated a notable trend due to the small sample size.

The mean value for LCHP could represent a “practically significant” impairment in performance ( i.e. , 1.5–1.8 min) if consistently observed across subjects.

Yet some test measures showed a trend towards improvement from oral β-alanine intake [ 55 ].

There was an increasing trend in height and weight gain velocity during the study versus the baseline period.

Immunochemical analysis of tumor lysates showed that SPARC levels in tumors from treated animals were lower than that in controls ( Figure 8 b; Figure S6 , [ 51 ]), although the trend did not quite reach statistical significance.

Borderline significance (attained at 10% level of significance) was attained with variables the following: whether parents were divorced, average mark during previous term and facilitating test anxiety ( Table 2 ).

From the present data, the odds ratio for the interaction of stress with being married was 2.98 (95% CI 0.97–9.18, p = 0.057), which was borderline significant; however, it indicates that both variables together increase the risk of eating disorders [ 56 ].

In the ACCORD trial, there was a borderline significant trend towards cardiovascular benefit among the pre-specified sub-group analysis of patients with TG ≥ 204 mg/dL and HDL cholesterol ≤34 mg/dL when compared with other patients [ 52 ].

Compared with placebo, inulin/FOS had no effect on plasma triacylglycerol concentrations and hepatic lipogenesis and induced only a nonsignificant trend for reduced plasma total and LDL-C levels and increased HDL-C concentration.

Children consuming the n -3 spread did not experience the decline in spelling observed in the unsupplemented children over the 6 months, and there was a marginally significant benefit of supplementation on reading.

There was a slight trend suggesting the share of animal-based foods to be higher among urban women.

The increment in CVD risk across decreasing 25(OH)D levels was generally linear over the range of 25(OH)D levels from 20 to 60 nmol/L, with a marginally significant pooled RR of 1.03 per decrement of 25 nmol/L of 25(OH)D [ 12 ].

Detection of p62 by immunoblotting showed a trend towards decreases p62 levels in the VitC deficient PMNs ( Figure 3 C).

Increasing folate intake reduced plasma homocysteine levels and induced an increase in total antioxidant capacity that was of borderline significance.

People using food labels information were slightly younger, an observation significant in univariate analysis and borderline significant in multivariable.

Compared to placebo, at 16-weeks multivitamin supplementation was found to be associated with a near-significant trend towards an increased CAR.

The 6-month Δ L/M value did not show a significant trend according to the different age groups (corresponding to different amount of oats or placebo) ( Figure 6 a,b). 4.

Those with the highest magnesium intake had 51% lower risk of developing diabetes than those with the lowest intake, and there was a significant trend across increasing quartile categories of intake in these middle-aged adults, even after adjustment for a number of risk and lifestyle factors, including dietary fiber intake.

The question was able to detect an increasing trend in intake (relative to three dietary recalls) in the non-Indigenous children; however, this trend was not evident in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children [ 29 ].

The relationships between VDR genotypes and LVH revealed a highly significant association of the BsmI Bb heterozygous genotype with LVH.

A borderline significant association between high physical activity and lower odds of overweight (OR = 0.62; 95% CI: 0.33–1.05) and central fatness as assessed by WHtR (OR = 0.53; 95% CI: 0.26–1.09) was also observed.

Hair Se had highly significant correlations with the Se concentration in muscle ( R = 0.89, n = 15), whole blood ( R = 0.90), red blood cells ( R = 0.91), blood plasma ( R = 0.87) and toenails ( R = 0.85) [ 3 , 11 ].

A value of p < 0.01 was taken to designate statistical significance, with 0.01 ≤ p ≤ 0.05 indicating marginal significance.

There was a decreasing trend in the time spent on each interview conducted over time in both the Somali and Iraqi groups.

Due to the small sample size and low power to detect significant differences, we also report differences at an alpha level of < 0.10 as marginally significant.