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rotundata approached significance, with home gardens exhibiting the highest estimates.

Worse cartilage scores at the MFC and a statistical trend for increased WORMS total scores were found in subjects with ACL reconstruction, independent of muscle characteristics.

In summary, the study showed a trend in improvement of outcomes in population as compared to previous study.

The odds of having poor outcome among those operated upon more than 5 years ago were of borderline significance (OR: 1.3; 95% CI: 0.9–1.8).

If we take a closer look at the integrated area of the aromatic protons, b 1 does not change overtime; while b 3 showed a decreasing trend and b 2 increased overtime.

After the univariate analysis, the variables that were identified as statistically significant or nearly significant were entered into a multivariate Cox regression model to forecast the main risk factor for perioperative flap necrosis.

In addition, although Fig 3 demonstrates a slight trend in the β-alanine group to improve total time and the Δ% improved ~3% for time variables in the β-alanine group, whereas in the placebo group the improvement was only ~0.5% ( Table 1 ), these differences (between-subject factor and within-subject factor) were very small and widely dispersed, making them non-significant.

Therefore, data are presented as mean ± standard error of the mean (SEM), and analysis was carried out with paired t-test and analysis of variance (ANOVA) with p values ≤ 0.05 and ≤ 0.01 considered as being significant and highly significant, respectively.

The Social Functioning subscale ( F (1, 49.336) = 12.191, p = .001) significantly increased (improved) during the follow-up period, while the General Health subscale ( F (1, 48.873) = 3.703, p = .060) showed improvement trending towards significance.

In the Southeast, despite having the highest average rate for the period (34.35), there was a decreasing trend (-0.39 per year).

The polynomial regression analysis showed an increasing trend of mortality from breast cancer in Brazil (increase of 0.18 each year; r 2 = 0.92), as well as in the Brazilian regions where the highest average rates were found in the South (16.40) and Southeast (16.27).

These rates presented an increasing trend over the years, however, in 2012 there was a decline in comparison to 2011 (-0.48 to -0.42).

At the same time, heavy metal parameters were positively associated with each other and their parameters were highly significant (' p ' value –<0.05), except Cd-Cr, Ni & Zn-Ni.

Both interrupted time series studies conducted in Chile [ 45 ] and Brazil [ 32 ] showed a decreasing trend after PCV introduction in children aged <2 years contrasting with non-decreasing trend in rates in age groups not targeted by PCV.

The urban-rural dummy shows a highly significant and positive association between urban residence and school enrolment for both sexes.

Regarding treatment modalities, elderly patients showed a trend toward less invasive treatments than non-elderly patients.

Although our post hoc models could not identify differences among bullet types as determined by the main effect of bullet type in our model, there was an apparent trend for carcasses shot with .17 Super Mag bullets to have fragments dispersed more than 2 times further than the other bullet types ( Table 1 ).

We also found that the SRB showed a decreasing trend from 2012 to 2014 but increased slightly again in 2015.

The sea cucumbers exhibited an increasing trend in size through the third year followed by a decline in size in the fourth and fifth years, whereas abalone size was largest in the fifth year ( Fig 5 ).

However, casapase-3 activation increased in CD8 + T cells when they were cultured with larger numbers of BCL1.3B3 tumor cells (10:1) demonstrating a clear trend of increased caspase-3 activation in CD8+ T cells cultured with larger numbers of BCL1 tumor cells ( Fig 7F ).

Both FTO and market class were highly significant for smoothness, suggesting that there were significant differences among cultivars with and without FTO and in different market classes.

S1 Table provides some evidence of an increasing trend of EAFH for different types of meals.

When using the JIF to represent the impact of an article that was published in that year, an increasing trend over time in the average impact factors was observed. 3.6 Demographic characteristics of the clinical acupuncture studies In order to analyze demographics of populations included in clinical acupuncture studies, we used PubMed customized filter settings, and chose five age groups across the lifespan.

The univariable regression analysis indicated a marginally significant association between lower 25OHD levels and better vaccine response (proportional odds ratio of having a better antibody response category, per 10 ng/mL increase in 25OHD: 0.78 [95% confidence interval: 0.62–0.98, P = 0.03).

P < 0.05 was considered significant and P < 0.01 highly significant.