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The late follow-up at 54 months showed that only five patients (5/91, 5.5%) were still alive, and four had received checkpoint inhibitor therapy, which shows a positive trend in modern oncology.

This study reported that a positive trend of mineral sulfur-nitrogen (MSN) accumulation in soil over time increased N uptake, especially with the synthesized urea N source.

A recent larger study involving 361 RCC patients including 287 with clear cell histology found a positive trend between serum and tissue CA9 and a significant correlation between serum CA9 and stage but not grade.

The recent epoch over the EAS during both seasons indicate a positive trend in the vertically averaged mid-tropospheric humidity, which is averaged between 800 and 300 hPa.

However, a positive trend was observed with this allele in RA subjects compared to the control group, implying that a survey on DRB1*04 in larger-population samples of both RA patients and healthy people can assist in arriving at a more reliable conclusion on this commonly noticed allele.

demonstrated first a positive trend for betablockade in congestive cardiomyopathy ( 65 ).

The J-shaped associations between BMI and the risks of all-cause and CVD mortality were still present among patients with elevated hsCRP concentration (≥3mg/L), while the association of BMI and mortality changed to a positive trend among patients with normal hsCRP concentration (<3mg/L).

Figure 1 shows a positive trend between digital literacy and participation, with higher literacy associated with greater engagement.

A positive trend for short- and long-term net survival was seen for women ages 18 to 64 years but long-term net survival for women ≥75 years decreased.

For all biomes, significant trends in DIC tendency occur only in South Atlantic SA and Southern Ocean SO1, with both biomes having a positive trend.

The first pre-specified interim analysis used the SP263 assay and reported stratified OS HRs suggesting a positive trend favoring atezolizumab in PD-L1 subgroups: stage II–IIIA (n=882), HR 0.95 (95% CI: 0.74–1.24); stage II–IIIA PD-L1 TC ≥1% (n=476), HR 0.71 (95% CI: 0.49–1.03); and stage II–IIIA PD-L1 TC ≥50% (n=229), HR 0.43 (95% CI: 0.24–0.78) ( 35 ).

For current smokers, we observed a positive trend between smoking duration, number of pack-years, number of cigarettes smoked per day, and age at smoking initiation and the risk of mucinous OC and all borderline OCs ( Table 2 ).

This 1 to 10 ratio largely exceeds the ratio of areas with a negative temperature trend vs areas with a positive trend, which is slightly less than 1 to 4 (namely 25 to 104), suggesting a significant, unbiased relationship between positive temperature trends and mortality events.

Crucially, there is a positive trend between community pharmacy accessibility and deprivation decile—with the highest access in the most deprived areas—showing there is no inverse pharmacy law for community pharmacy distribution in England.

suggests a positive trend in pain improvement, there was neither a control arm nor a clear explanation in the methods to whether the study was standardized for all patients ( 36 ).

In analyses based on boys and girls combined, there was evidence of a positive trend in BA C , PC, and CT across quartiles of medium-impact and particularly high-impact activity.

In some secondary endpoints such as headache intensity or headache duration, a positive trend or significant subgroup analysis could be observed.

It was also acknowledged that there has been a positive trend in research and understanding of REDs and that policies relating to RED-D would need to be updated as understanding grows.

5 C) and a positive trend was observed with fibrinogen binding (Fig. 5 D).

A positive trend could be observed.

Although the Detrital Index showed a positive trend with Plant H, this does not imply that rock minerals directly facilitate growth.

Despite the considerable amount of literature concerning PEWS, the evidence supporting their effect is limited and various systematic reviews failed to demonstrate more than a positive trend on clinical outcomes [ 1 , 4 , 5 , 15 , 24 ].

The quantitative analysis of the remaining four studies showed a positive trend between higher LS values, measured in kPa, and risk of developing HCC, although statistical significance was not reached at EOT and 12 wk of follow-up, while LS at 24 wk showed a statically significant association with HCC development.

At lower altitudes (<1500 MAMSL), the prevalence of abdominal obesity exhibits a positive trend increasing by age group, while above 1500 MAMSL, it exhibits an inverted-u shaped relationship ( Figure 2 ).

In both sexes, we observed a positive trend of upper-body strength (by using the number of sit-ups in 30 s), which is consistent to previous findings 11 , 12 , 23 , 48 , 49 .