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Although the change in relative volume of the olfactory bulb was the only statistically significant outcome, a statistical trend for a change in volume of several brain regions warrants investigation.

The trial showed no effect on the primary outcome, the percentage change in body weight, but there was an overall trend towards greater improvements in physical function and QOL in the intervention group.

In the EAT, the total lipid levels exhibited a decreasing trend upon SS supplementation regardless of the concentration ( Figure 6 A).

The liver weight and WAT (WAT, MAT, RAT and PAT) showed a trend to be lower in rats fed an SS-supplemented HFC diet.

Conversely, there was a positive trend observed with eating a more inflammatory diet or ultra-processed foods.

This is a positive trend that leads to the reduction of the calorific value of a supplement.

Although the mechanisms on how increasing BCAA oxidation enhances the endurance capacity remain unclear, this is the first report to reveal the specific cell type that causes neurological abnormalities due to BDK dysfunction, which provides a positive trend to the endurance capacity.

Following 1980, a decreasing trend of carbohydrate energy and an increasing trend of fat energy were observed in the Bangladeshi diet.

[ 35 ] showed a trend towards greater decrease in LF in NASH patients when compared to dietary advice alone.

Higher intake of fruit and vegetables (≥5 portions a day) over 16 weeks showed a trend in grater change in muscle strength (GS) compared with older adults consuming ≤2 portions of fruit and vegetables a day.

However, an interesting trend towards some improvements has emerged.

The majority of peptides (279 out of 439) showed a trend towards higher abundance in preterm mothers’ milk compared with term mothers’ milk, of these 19 were significantly more abundant.

In agreement with the regulatory role of NF-κB on COX2 expression [ 43 ], mRNA levels for NF-kB1 and COX2 displayed a decreasing trend under LPS induction.

There has been an increasing trend toward mandatory systems: labels in Mexico, Croatia, Chile, Uruguay, Peru, Israel, Iran, and Sri Lanka are all mandatory.

After one month on the diet, an average of nine symptoms remitted, and highly significant improvements were also noted in pain and fatigue measures.

Given that emulsifiers other than carboxymethylcellulose and polysorbate-80 approached significance for reducing colon length in this study, and their consumption frequency was high, an investigation of the effectiveness of restricting all emulsifier classes in Crohn’s disease is warranted.

It was reported that inadequate intake of some micronutrients are highly significant especially in individuals at older age, when the risk of developing diet-related diseases such as obesity and cardiovascular disease is much higher than in childhood [ 18 , 26 ].

In respect of liver enzymes, our investigation showed a trend towards favoring n-3 PUFAs treatment on AST, ALT, and GGT.

Dividing the female group by menopausal status, the difference among groups in EBWL was borderline significant, with a preserved significant difference between males and pre-menopausal females ( Figure 3 a).

p values < 0.05 were considered statistically significant, whereas p values of 0.05 to 0.10 were described as borderline significant. 3.

(2011) did not find any clear association between FV variety consumption and bladder cancer risk; the highest tertile of scores for FV consumption had a marginally significant hazard ratio as compared with the lowest (HR = 1.30, 95% CI: 1.00–1.69, p -trend = 0.05) ( n = 452185) (2011) [ 59 ].

There is an increasing trend in publication in this area, mostly regarding Virtual Reality.

Relationships between Social Deprivation and Diet Quality Compared to the least socially deprived areas, there was a decreasing trend in the mean diet quality of people living in areas with intermediate and the highest level of social deprivation (intermediate deprivation: −0.41, 95% CI: −0.71, −0.11; most deprived: −0.87, 95% CI: −1.20, −0.54) ( Table 4 ).

Of 376 papers, 25 datasets were included in the analysis, which revealed a protective role of dietary fibre intake on risk of CRC, with a highly significant effect size of 0.74 (95% CI: 0.67–0.82) and a moderate level of statistical heterogeneity [ 79 ].

More recently, another study reported a highly significant, positive correlation between lower death rates and a country’s proximity to the equator [ 179 ].