“a slight trend”

For csDMARDs, we noted a slight trend towards reduced dispensations that was accentuated during 2020 (−8.5%), a marked drop in treatment starts and an accompanying but less pronounced drop in treatment discontinuation.

While there was a slight trend towards a higher percentage of alive (YFP+) spores per larvae in rac2 −/− versus rac2 +/+ larvae, this difference was not statistically significant, suggesting that Rac2 is not required for spore killing ( Fig. 3C ).

However, as there was a slight trend ( Fig. 5B ) toward lower survival probabilities in the high-cfDNA group, we hypothesize that our study might be underpowered to detect survival differences based on cfDNA concentrations, as only 19 patients had passed until the date of censoring (May 2023).

1 , 3 However, in this study, analysis of the trend curve showed that in-hospital mortality due to AMI is stable, with a slight trend of reduction, while out-of-hospital mortality increased in the studied period.

This study also showed that there is a slight trend towards straightening of the spine during brace treatment.

Pore water acetate concentrations were very low, in the range of 0.6–8.6 μM with a slight trend of increasing concentrations with depth ( Fig. 4D ).

Similarly, deletion of the MRF4 gene in mice promoted a slight trend toward increased muscle fiber size [ 18 ].

With an increase in elevation, there was a slight trend of increase in all diversity measures, both for invaded and uninvaded plots, with the exception of mean number of species per plot (Fig. 4 a), which was almost constant across all elevations.

WB results showed that Gd/MPC had little effect on the proteins of MSK2, C-Fos and C-jun, while a slight trend was seen for Gd/MPC + MW.

At T2, the improvement in secondary outcome measures was maintained in the HIT group despite a slight trend to baseline values.

There is a slight trend in some residuals, such as for the UPDRS BI model, indicating that the model structure could be improved.

In the experience by Meng et al [ 10 ], the OS showed a slight trend towards superiority of SBRT with chemo over SBRT without chemo, although these differences were not statistically significant ( p = 0.35).

Another interesting point is that there is a slight trend for a lower similarity between the cycles of the faster participants (lower test duration) than for the slower ones, which indicates a higher intrapersonal-variability for faster performances.

That is well accounted for by a significantly lesser recourse to thrombolysis in this population and a slight trend, although not statistically significant to less pPCI implementation.

There was a slight trend for studies to improve in quality over time.

Overall, there was a slight trend towards enrichment or substitutions at contact sites relative to noncontact sites, but this was not significant in the Neanderthal data set ( P = 0.10) or Denisovan data set ( P = 0.17; Fisher’s exact tests).

Although these findings were not statistically significant, a slight trend toward lower spirometry values in patients with perfusion defects could be observed.

Although the pooled estimate showed a slight trend favoring surgery, the confidence interval crossed zero, indicating the difference was not statistically significant.

Fish skin prokaryotic diversity The two methods (A and B) yielded overall similar results concerning the drivers of interspecific differences of fish skin microbial diversity, identifying a slight trend of correlation between fish species phylogeny and prokaryotic phylogenetic entropy (i.e., phylogenetic signal, Fig. 2 ).

1f ), although there is a slight trend toward elevation of spontaneous spike frequency after PTX treatment, neither Nutlin-3, nor Pifithrin-α showed similar effects as in neural network synchrony (Fig. 1e ).

Sieck et al found a slight trend toward more hyphemas in anticoagulated patients, but the trend was not statistically significant. 7 Still, studies with larger samples are needed to clearly define the impact of anticoagulation therapy on the risk of excessive hyphema after KDB surgery.

The incidence of broad-definition AESIs in older vaccinees was generally comparable to younger adults, with a slight trend toward lower rates as age increased, although overall, age was considered to have no impact on the overall safety profile of VLA1553.

However, TPU/TPUU showed a slight trend towards reduced neutrophil adherence.

There is also a slight trend for the interaction effect, but it is not significant.

A significant silencing activity of the passenger strand was observed only when the ESB RNA was 22 bp, with a slight trend toward dose-dependent passenger strand activity at 21 bp.