“a clear trend”

In unstimulated samples from HCWs, we found a clear trend towards lower levels of both pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines compared to CCs.

Despite the lack of a clear trend in the associations and predictive ability of total versus free testosterone, evidence from Asian populations does appear to be consistent in identifying that free testosterone, but not total testosterone, has a significant inverse association with age [ 4 , 21 , 22 ]; this is also consistent with the present study.

We found a clear trend showing a striking downregulation of most piRNA pathway genes during the developmental transition from spermatogonia to spermatocytes (Fig. 5e ).

Therefore, rather, we could appreciate that the distribution of the use of adaptive strategies varies between groups, without speaking of a clear trend of increase proportional to the age of adolescents, suggesting that this relationship could be influenced by factors that could be further analyzed.

Public data sets The review revealed a clear trend of many publications relying on the same datasets, with the Sleep-EDF dataset being the most commonly used [ 306 ].

Finally, in the REM state ( Fig 3D ), the differences between the two groups are minimal, except for narrow frequency bands that do not exhibit a clear trend.

Although not statistically significant, our cohort observed a clear trend towards a higher mutational load in male patients, which goes in line with previously published data [ 28 ].

basal 0, and MAIP 1), showed a clear trend in favor of MAIP group.

High interest of researchers in the design of different types of nanocontainers occurs, with a clear trend towards multifunctional and complicated formulations observed.

Although some univariate Cox hazard results of lipid factors did not reach statistical significance, we saw a clear trend and called the result promising and worth further studies.

There was a clear trend for a slower segregation of cells in the α11 -/- /A549 spheroids ( Fig. 3A ).

On the other hand, one can observe a clear trend that both CO 2 and N 2 adsorption energies get lower as the substrate bends from graphene to (8,0) CNT.

However, for the overcharge anode, the exothermic peak shifts to lower temperature, showing a clear trend of temperature advancement.

Results showed that the p CO 2 in the Changjiang riverine system is significantly higher than that of the atmosphere (350 ppm), and it appeared a clear trend of reduction since the 1960s (Fig. 5 ).

Although there was no statistical significance obtained in our study, there is a clear trend that 14-3-3 δ expression is correlated with invasive tumor size and pathological differentiation.

In Fife mutants, we observed a clear trend toward fewer cytomatrix-associated docked vesicles, with a mean of 0.9 per Fife synapse compared with 1.7 per wild-type synapse ( Fig. 6 L ).

In this scenario, there was a clear trend of damage propagating both longitudinally and transversely across the track slab, which is shown in Figure 8 b.

rosae has the largest number of identified response-related genes among Hymenoptera, our data do not show a clear trend between immune gene repertoire reduction and eusocial lifestyle.

In income quintile-stratified models, there was a clear trend of increasing mortality associated with increasing household income.

The related AIC values also show a clear trend toward the three-particle hypothesis ( Table S2 ), making it preferable for the final OP7/STV co-infection model.

The results show a clear trend: Pb compounds have lower conduction band mass and higher valence band mass in relation to the Sn counterparts.

The size of degraded (i)-amyloid and (r)-amyloid decreased in a clear trend, depending on the minocycline concentration and incubation time.

Data in table 4 give general figures on correct knowledge and practices about malaria and a clear trend was not capture using the four different answers put together but when the analysis was splitted and analysis done for individual parameters significant differences between intervention and non-intervention sites was recorded for exemple knowledge on mode of malaria transmission and breeding habitats.

When comparing the adverse events, we identified a clear trend toward higher postoperative complication rates—especially for reoperation, prolonged hospital admission and delay of adjuvant RT—in patients that suffered HAIs (OR 17.34, 95% CI 2.09–143.28; p < 0.001).

Conclusion In these 2 large longitudinal projects spanning 2 decades of ventilation care for critically ill patients, we noticed a clear trend towards increased use of LTVV in females and males.