Barely Significant
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“a positive trend”

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p=0.09

Listed by Hankins (2013) · Otte et al. (2022)

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Again, with a sample of 2,125 men and women with two complete dietary recalls and BMD scans of the hip and spine, Mangano and colleagues [ 59 ] observed a positive trend between dietary omega 3 and BMD at the femoral neck and the spine in multivariate regression models, but those trends were not significant, and once again, the osteoporosis diagnosis was not taken into account.
Similarly, the lack of a statistically significant improvement in OS and PFS in our RCT analysis, despite a positive trend, echoes the nuanced results seen in some earlier meta-analyses of immunotherapy, where benefits were sometimes confined to specific subgroups or required longer follow-up to become apparent ( Chen et al., 2018 ; Peng and Wu, 2019 ).
When stratifying by overweight status and categories of waist circumference, we only observed a positive trend between continuous log-transformed values of G/L ratio and risk of BCa death in women with waist circumference above the median ( Table 2 ), with hazard ratios of 7.20 (95% CI: 1.29–40.25).