“a slight trend”

On the basis of our cutoff values, although a slight trend of increased number of patients was noted in line with the extent of nodal metastasis, it did not reach significance among N1, N2, and N3 (data not shown).

Our results indicated that an extension of the invitation interval has no significant impact on the stage distribution for both screen‐detected and interval cancers, although there was a slight trend towards a higher percentage of late‐stage cancers in groups with extended intervals.

Exploratory testing for dose proportionality in SD1 demonstrated close to linear PK for AUC and a slight trend towards decreasing C max with increasing doses.

There was a slight trend toward those with internet access practicing more ( M = 47.28 h, SD = 35.06 h) than those without internet access ( M = 36.53 h, SD = 51.49 h); however, the results were not statistically significant as determined by an independent samples t -test [ t (83) = −1.14, p = 0.258].

Conversely, Fitbit displayed a slight trend of increasing overestimation with higher mean values.

Within this subset, a slight trend was observed for a higher frequency of some disease characteristics potentially associated with less aggressive disease compared with those who received <2 years of avelumab treatment, which included a better performance status, smaller tumor burden, a lower prevalence of liver metastases at baseline and a higher frequency of disease control achieved with prior chemotherapy.

On average, students are scoring between 7.8 and 8.0 on each item, which corresponds to the Likert designation of just under a “3.” For the class of 2016 and 2017, there appears to be a slight trend toward improved 7E-CRF performance from year 2 to year 3 OSCE, but this was not found in the class of 2018.

The combination groups and TILT-123 caused a slight trend of higher release of IFNg in 3/3 samples on both day 3 and 7 compared with the control group; however, this was not statistically significant.

Furthermore, as the PEGDA molecular weight increases, a slight trend of higher porosity is observed.

Further, we exposed cells to irradiation and again G55 cells showed a lower sensitivity when DDIT4 was induced, whereas LNT-229-stable DDIT4-overexpressing cells showed only a slight trend for a survival advantage (Fig. 4b ).

Considering the volume of the lesion in M1, there was a slight trend towards a greater decrease in the density of the corticobulbar projection to PMRF originating from PM for increasing lesion size in M1 (Supporting information Figure S3 a).

Inguinal LND was performed predominantly in a radical or modified fashion, with a slight trend toward an increasing use of the sentinel technique.

We found no evidence for this: Although there was a slight trend for greater heritability for persistent difficulties, there were no significant differences in the heritability and environmentality estimates for each of these categories.

In comparison with the control fibroblasts, DC fibroblasts showed a slight trend toward increased NMNAT‐1 and NMNAT‐2 expression, but no substantial change in NMNAT‐3 and NAMPT (Fig 1 D and E).

Likewise, the study observes, as other studies do [ 7 ], the fact that death risk is very high immediately after hip fracture and that this risk rapidly drops over the first year, stabilizing with a slight trend downwards over the following years (Fig. 2 ).

Apart from the inhomogeneous sample #1, samples #3 and #5 show a slight trend towards decreasing mechanical properties in the direction of the filament edges, which indicates a particle depletion in this area [ 89 ].

In contrast, CRT ( n = 241) seemed to provide only a slight trend towards an OS advantage in R1-resected pts, emerging as a positive difference in median values of 3.5 months, as well as non-significant HR of 0.72 and 2-y and 5-y rates (30% vs. 19% with observation, and 18% vs. 8%, respectively).

In our sample, older pilots also had higher resting SBP and DBP, and there was a slight trend toward greater SpO 2 reduction in those with higher baseline BP, although this did not reach statistical significance.

After adjustment for provider and patient level factors, the UPC index showed a slight trend towards decreasing continuity over time (0.27%/year (95% confidence interval (CI): − 0.34 to − 0.21)) in the years prior to the transition.

For example, the bacterial load after 24 h was high at peripheral infection sites (i.e., lung, cerebrospinal fluid, subcutaneous tissue and peritoneal fluid) and barely allowed for a comparison of dosage regimens; just a slight trend favouring the CI + LD 1000mg or the 3-h infusion regimens could be observed. 2.1.2.

Although the results support this hypothesis, the reduction in burden did not reach statistical significance, albeit showing a slight trend when considering the entire sample.

There is a slight trend for increased silencing upon knock-down of R2D2 in the control case, consistent with our previous report.

Anti-platelet agents had no significant impact on PMR (RR = 0.91, 95% CI: 0.81–1.03) [NS]), though a slight trend toward reduced risk was observed [LOE: 1++] .

There was a slight trend toward higher ejection fractions on S-SPECT over DNM for both rest and stress measurements.

However, given a slight trend towards a survival benefit in this group, it is possible that there may still be some individuals who could benefit from additional therapy.