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When stratified by sex, this difference showed a tendency towards significance in men ( p adj. = 0.075), but not in women ( p adj. = 0.729).

However, none of the individual predictors reached statistical significance at the p < 0.05 level: number of IVF attempts (β = −0.118; p = 0.395), age (β = 0.253; p = 0.070), and BMI (β = 0.272; p = 0.052), although age and BMI showed a trend approaching statistical significance. 3.3.

Although some analyses did not demonstrate statistically significant evidence for a clear improvement in the quality of oocytes and embryos, many studies indicate a positive trend in this area.

Research suggests that MI therapy in women with PCOS results in better fertilization rates and a clear trend to a better embryo quality [ 42 ].

We also noted a significant trend of decreasing total FHC and subscale scores with increasing education level. 4.

We observed sixty nominally significant correlations; none survived false discovery rate (FDR) correction (lowest q = 0.08) ( Table S3 ).

A distinct pattern is observed in Kenya, where both caloric availability and protein density show a decreasing trend, accompanied by a strong and statistically significant correlation (τ = 0.800, p = 0.014), suggesting a structurally consistent but negative trajectory ( Figure 3 ).

For zinc intake, a decreasing trend in the odds of DepS was observed with increasing intake, reaching the lowest point near the median intake level, followed by a possible non-linear fluctuation at higher intake levels ( p for non-linearity <0.001).

A decreasing trend was also observed for Bacteroidetes , which play a key role in complex carbohydrate degradation and metabolic balance, indicating a broader weakening of the functional foundation of the gut microbiome [ 73 ].

However, there was a slight trend indicating increased diversification in the PMC94-treated group.

After adjusting WBBMC for weight (WBBMC/kg^1.3), PTH remained a weakly significant predictor of adjusted WBBMC in multivariate regression modeling.

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.

Although the association of diet with allergic diseases has been studied worldwide, their findings are contradictory and sometimes barely significant.

The Effect of Use of Hormonal Contraceptives on Calcium Homeostasis and Bone Turnover As shown in Table 2 , plasma concentrations of phosphate and osteocalcin were borderline significant lower in users-compared with non-users of HC; whereas no other measured indices differed between groups. 4.

In addition, they also noted an increasing trend with other pro-inflammatory markers like TNF-α and IL-6 with overweight/obesity.

The sensitivity analysis in which one study at a time was omitted generally showed statistically significant or marginally significant results; the pooled ORs ranged from 0.64 (95% CI, 0.46–0.89) to 0.78 (95% CI, 0.57–1.07).

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.