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Effusion of the contralateral stifle, in particular, was a highly significant risk factor for disease progression and development of contralateral CR, with an odds ratio of 13.4 for development of a contralateral CR by 1 year after diagnosis.

Food intake showed a trend towards reduction of circulating endothelial precursor cell numbers Vasculature stress and inflammation to the endothelium induces repair mechanisms involving circulating endothelial cells (CECs) and the circulating endothelial precursor cells (CPCs) [30] , [31] .

When adjusted for age and sex, the level of significance was reduced reaching the border line (p = 0.057) in the small cohort, but still showing a clear trend.

The parameter related to diplomatic statements is only weakly significant at the 0.1 level.

Following vaccination only (dC−1 sera in the Phase IIa trials), there was a highly significant correlation between ELISA responses against recombinant proteins for both alleles of both antigens ( Table 2 ).

Inflamed colonic LPLs contained an increasing trend in the proportion of CD11b + cell infiltrates but this increase was less prominent in IL-17KO mice ( Figure 3A ).

Discussion In this study we demonstrated that the serum myostatin level is lower in the patients with DM, and there was a negative trend between serum myostatin level and the number of MetS components.

[13] found no association between hypertension and OAG; in fact, high blood pressure (BP) showed a trend toward a negative relationship with OAG risk in the Barbados Eye Studies [14] .

Influenza vaccination was associated with lesser incidence of influenza-like illness near to statistical significance (adjusted odds ratio: 0.29; 95% CI 0.08–1.03).

In the 2009–2010 season, a decreasing trend of the SAR was observed with increasing age of the contacts: 32% in children under 5 years, 26% in persons between 5 and 17 years old, 10% in persons between 18 and 49 years, and 7% in persons age 50 or older.

Although this association remained significant for the onset of manic symptoms in the multivariable analyses, the association with the onset of a (hypo)manic episode only reached a borderline significance level.

age, stage, gender, histology, and smoking status, we observed a weakly significant correlation between gender and gal-9Δ5 (r = 0.24) and between age and respectively gal-1 (r = 0.26), gal-9 (r = −0.25) and gal-9Δ5 (r = −0.30).

Considering that slightly significant heterogeneity was detected, we selected the fixed-effect model.

Two factors showed marginally significant increased hazard: Cotrimoxazole treatment at baseline [HR 1.58, 95% CI: 1.10 to 2.25], and male gender [HR 1.37, 95% CI: 1.17 to 1.61].

Although the number of territories in which non-parental feedings were observed was low, probably causing only marginally significant results, these observations do suggest that adults that do provide non-parental feedings do this frequently and, from the fledglings' perspective, that non-parental feedings involve an important source of energy for these fledglings.

However, those who were overweight had lower mortality (OR, 0.59 [95%CI 0.38, 0.92]), consistent with prior work [38] – [40] , Nonetheless, including these variables in the model did not change the magnitude of the association between anosmia and mortality, which remained highly significant (OR, 3.29 [95%CI 1.78, 6.07]).

The effect of temperature was highly significant, but only outside the tropics.

The association with mammogram (every 2–3 years) was marginally significant after adjusted for practice of clinical examination ( Table 7 ).

We measured the hydrophobicity of 28 strains, and found highly significant differences both between strains ( p . value of a one factor ANOVA <2 e −16 ) and groups ( p . value of a Kruskal Walis Test = 4.63 e −5 ).

The activity of ERK still showed an increasing trend in KLM1-R when treated with U0126 ( Fig. 5 B), indicating a tolerance to U0126 in KLM1-R compared to KLM1 cells.

In addition, MSC-treated mice had a statistical trend toward increased CD4+Foxp3+ cells, consistent with Tregs, as has been described earlier [36] , including in a tracheal transplant model [37] .

Permutation tests for the equality of group distributions null hypothesis (using distance component analysis [10] - see the “Data analysis” subsection on Methods for details) presented in Table 1 , confirm that the group differences are highly significant (p-value ) for the number of features, correlation, and sample size parameters (note the high values of the observed test statistics), but non-significant for saturation, and marginally significant for the signal-to-noise parameter.

13.91±6.18) and showed a trend towards improved PFS after curative surgery.

A decreasing trend of tiller number per hill was observed after the reproductive stage, irrespective of treatment.

There was an upward trend from 2004 to 2005, a decreasing trend from 2005 to 2010, then a slowing upward trend from 2010 to 2013.