“a slight trend”

In the present study, there is an improvement in BCVA by at least 1 line detected as early as 6 months after the crosslinking procedure and this improvement is still evident after 1 year although associated with a slight trend towards a myopic shift.

Among patients who received split-dose P/MC and who had abnormal serum Mg 2+ levels on the day of colonoscopy, there was a slight trend for increased serum Mg 2+ concentration with decreasing CrCl.

We also performed an analysis including only those studies that measured microbiome at the time of T1DM diagnosis which is more similar to the design of the ALL studies meta-analysis and shows a slight trend in the same direction as the overall analysis (S5 Fig in S1 File ).

There was a slight trend to find more plants with clubs in soils with a pH above 6.5 compared to soil with a pH below this value ( Figure 4 B).

Overall, there is a slight trend in favour of surgical therapy based on expert opinions and retrospective studies [ 14 ].

While TLR2 and TLR4 were expressed similarly between SLE patients and healthy controls, a slight trend towards higher levels of expression was observed in cells from active SLE patients (data not shown).

In late childhood, lepromatous leprosy risk shows a slight trend towards male bias; although 95%CIs included 1 in all year-specific analyses ( Text S2 ), the random-effects mean IRR was estimated at 1.50 (95%CI 1.09–2.05) ( Table 2 ).

After bootstrap correction, the calibration slope of the model was 1.19 and the calibration intercept was 0.17, suggesting that the model was well-calibrated overall, with only a slight trend toward systematic underestimation of risk, as shown in Fig.

There was a slight trend toward improved protocol compliance over the years.

As a final curiosum, the tasks performed by students at University of Oslo had a slight trend toward a higher mean (SD) percentage of correct answers at 56.1 (25.5) % versus 49.5 (27.8) %, although without reaching statistical significance ( p = 0.128).

TLR3 activation via PolyIC treatment caused a slight trend to downregulate miR-221-3p and miR-27a-3p in M2-macrophages, but did not affect miR-155-5p.

While there was a slight trend towards a worse prognosis, no significant association between TP53 exon mutation and survival (OS and DFS) was detected (P OS =0.093, P DFS =0.095).

There was a slight trend toward lower average segmentation quality scores with increasing lesion difficulty, as rated by Radiologist 1, for both the Crop U-Net and Crop Attention U-Net segmentations (Fig. 10 a).

A slight trend in the number of microplastic particles correlating with age was observed, with older patients (aged 60 and above) tending to have a higher presence of microplastics in their BAL samples.

The findings showed a slight trend toward faster improvement in skin symptoms, particularly rashes, among individuals receiving early RTX, although the effect did not reach statistical significance.

We judge the current data to indicate a slight trend toward splice-affecting mutations occurring within the stems of local RNA secondary structures, specifically at the "dangling ends." However, subsequent Monte Carlo simulations with the appropriate statistical tests (Chi-squared or Fisher exact) revealed none of these trends to be statistically significant (α = 0.1) with the current data.

There was a slight trend towards higher heart and kidney weights in EC-EGFR-WT compared to VSMC-EGFR-WT.

However, there is a slight trend towards smaller side chains at positions contributing to the central hydrophobic core of the funnelin domain, which might lower thermal stability: Leu78Ala, Tyr96Leu, Ile97Val, Ile80Ala, Met100Ile, Leu111Val, Leu119Ala, Leu128Val, Met143Cys, and Ser151Ala.

Belgium experiences the smallest change in crude mortality during the 20-year period, with a slight trend to lower crude mortality over time.

3 B) there was a slight trend of PPS enlargement after training, as shown by the peaks of the distribution that were rather spread apart.

A slight trend toward reduced LDH release on PolyGraph films was observed at day 7, with no impact on the metabolic activity of the astrocytes (Figure S8C,D ).

Moreover, there is a slight trend of shift toward the Th2‐based response, with most indeterminate IGRA patients exhibiting significant increase in the Th2 cytokine IL‐6 levels and slightly increase of other Th2 cytokines, for example, IL‐10, IL‐4, and IL‐5 (Figure S1b ).

Although there was a slight trend favoring Sygen at weeks 8 and 16, the curves remained close together, reflecting the limited capacity for functional restitution in complete SCI.

There was however a slight trend of FHD being associated with low femoral antetorsion.

In general, there is a slight trend toward patient-reported outcome measurement tools since they provide benefits regarding safety, effectiveness, and experience ( 28 ).