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GC participants were slightly more likely to consume a vitamin D containing supplement (28.4%) than were BI participants (23.6%), although this result did not quite reach conventional levels of statistical significance ( p = 0.05).

When two groups were defined a posteriori based on the insulin values of LDIGIT (120–150 min) , there was a borderline significant group by time interaction for PAI-1 ( p = 0.05; n = 49) and the change in PAI-1 was greater in the insulin-resistant group (177, 61 for HMD vs. 128, 52 ng/mL for HWD; p < 0.001) than in the insulin-sensitive group (137, 80 for HMD vs. 113, 39 ng/mL for HWD; p = 0.02).

Academic program distribution approached significance ( p = 0.050).

However, it is noteworthy that circulating eNOS concentrations were close to the level of significance (set at p < 0.05) in both groups, with an increasing and decreasing trend after OPO and SO intake, respectively. 3.7.

There were no significant differences either in the estimated 14-MEDAS scores between the different age ranges (18–24 years, 6.25 ± 1.73; 25–34 years, 6.09 ± 1.97; 35–44 years, 6.16 ± 2.03; 45–54 years, 6.72 ± 2.18; 55–64 years, 6.14 ± 2.24; 65–81 years, 5.89 ± 2.09; p -value = 0.418) although we detected a small and almost significant negative correlation between age and 14-MEDAS ( r = −0.1, p -value = 0.05).

also reported a weak trend between MeDi and large drusen ( P = 0.05).

Highly significant regulated genes were considered to be those having a statistical significance of p < 0.05 and a greater than 2-fold change compared to vehicles.

Changes in the CD4 + /CD8 + ratio approached significance in the 2000 IU/day group ( p = 0.05).

In the multivariable-adjusted analysis, sodium (adjusted odds ratio [OR] 0.89, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.82–0.96; p = 0.004) and potassium (adjusted OR 0.87, 95% CI 0.77–0.99; p = 0.04) remained significantly associated, while phosphorus showed borderline significance (adjusted OR 0.64, 95% CI 0.41–1.00; p = 0.05).

Although the difference in pre-meal hunger between Week two and Week four did not reach statistical significance ( p = 0.05), a rising trend was still observed in the self-reported ratings.

Moreover, a strong trend was demonstrated for decreased LDL cholesterol (100 ± 8 mg/dL (2.59 ± 0.21) to 93 ± 7 (2.40 ± 0.18); p = 0.05) and a decline in TC:HDL ratio from 4.0 ± 0.3 during control to 3.7 ± 0.2 during the fiber intervention ( p = 0.02) period.

Notably, while TNF-α levels showed a decreasing trend following probiotic treatments, no statistically significant difference was observed compared to the MC group ( p > 0.05).

Notably, the study concluded that glycaemic response could be predicted independently using microbiome data and demonstrated highly significant interpersonal variation of glycaemic responses to both interventions ( p < 0.05), reinforcing previous findings that metabolic responses to food are interpersonal and vary significantly between individuals [ 19 ].

Serum creatinine levels was also had an increasing trend across increasing TF intakes (89.6, 92.5 and 94.2 μmol/L in the first, second and third tertile, respectively; p < 0.05) There was no significant difference between prevalent diabetes (3.4% vs. 5.1%) and HTN (10.3% vs. 8.3%), as well as mean CVD risk score (19.8 vs. 19.9) in the highest compared to the lowest tertile of TF.

The interaction of e-DII with hours slept was marginally significant ( p = 0.05). 3.2.3.

In maternal breastmilk samples on days 14 and 28, no SCFAs were significantly different for infants with BPD compared to no BPD, or ROP compared to no ROP, after adjusting for multiple comparisons ( Table 3 ); however, in infants’ stool samples on day 14, acetic acid approached significance for infants with BPD compared to no BPD (446 ± 564 vs. 1000 ± 712 μg/g, adjusted p = 0.05) ( Table 4 ).

FTT, one of the most frequently reported extra intestinal manifestation [ 28 ], showed a decreasing trend at older ages (chi square, p > 0.05).

Boys with higher percent body fat consumed fewer carbohydrates ( p = 0.01), with a strong trend towards consuming less energy ( p = 0.05).

The weight of the tibialis anterior showed a decreasing trend in the DEX group ( p = 0.05) and was significantly decreased in the 2LDEX group compared with the control group; however, there was no difference between the DEX-treated groups ( Figure 3 G).

This protective effect was then observed at week 12, as well as weeks 16, 18 and 20, while at weeks 14 and 21, the results were borderline significant ( p = 0.0501 and p = 0.052, respectively).

The differences in FGF 21 between HSI-I and HSI-non-I showed borderline significance ( p = 0.0503) after being adjusted for age and gender ( Figure 4 C). 4.

Regarding biomarkers of liver function, levels of total bilirubin, direct bilirubin and indirect bilirubin were unaffected by walnut consumption, although an increasing trend in total bilirubin and indirect bilirubin was observed in participants regardless of their group with a near-significant main effect of time ( p = 0.0505 and p = 0.0729), suggesting that academic stress may lead to a mild increase in total bilirubin levels.

In women, the carbohydrate intake was higher in the obesity group than the nonobese group, and the association of the carbohydrate intake with the obesity risk was marginally significant ( p = 0.0508).

Serum zinc concentrations showed a positive correlation with progressive motility (r = 0.577, p = 0.031) and serum copper showed a weak and near-significant correlation with motility (r = 0.115, p = 0.051) ( Figure 2 ).

However, differences between levels were close to being statistically significant ( p = 0.051).