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Gibbs, Misuse of ‘trend’ to describe ‘almost significant’ differences in anaesthesia research, BJA: British Journal of Anaesthesia, Volume 115, Issue 3, September 2015, Pages 337-339, https://doi.org/10.1093/bja/aev149 Blaisdell AP, Seitz B, Rowney C, Folsom M, MacPherson M, Deffner D, Logan CJ. 2019.

There was a significant negative correlation between the FEV1 (%) and FVC (%) with that of BMI and WHR in contrast to a previously published study, which noted a positive correlation between BMI and pulmonary function test.[ 19 ] Our results are in accordance with studies where BMI and WHR are negatively correlated to pulmonary function test.[ 24 ] Yet another study had reported a significant (or almost significant) inverse correlation with residual FVC, FEV 0.75 , and FEV 1 among boys with over-weight and obesity.[ 16 ] BMI also showed inverse correlations with residual FVC and FEV 1 , both of which were border-line significant.

Difference in expected success between groups was almost significant for the emotion distraction task, again with the VOF expected to be significantly less successful in performing the emotion distraction (VOF, M = 57.76, SD = 31.66; NOC, M = 77.41, SD = 22.36; p = .05).

[ 18 ], had shown that preterm babies ≤32 weeks’ gestation resuscitated with lower (0.21–0.3) versus higher (0.6–1.0) initial FiO 2 showed no differences in morbidity but exhibited an almost significant trend towards reduced mortality [ 18 ], both the TORPIDO trial from Australia/New Zealand/Malaysia [ 19 ] and the Neonatal Network in Canada [ 20 ] reported increased mortality in very preterm babies initially stabilized with air.

S7 ) and IPO8 , which was almost significant.

All the treatments brought about almost significant reduction in free fatty acid contents of safflower oil in both the varieties ( Fig 4B ).

Also, there was a significant relationship between capillaroscopy score 2 and high global VAS score ( p -value 0.047), and the relationship between capillaroscopy score 2 and high skin VAS score was almost significant ( p -value 0.050).

However, after excluding patients with HSV-1 reactivation, presepsin levels in severe COVID-19 patients with bacterial superinfection showed an almost significant increase, aligning with findings in sepsis [ 17 , 18 ].

Statistically significant (p < 0.05) results are indicated with exact p-values given in parentheses, and statistically non-significant results are indicated with ns , where suitable p-values of “almost significant” results are indicated. 3.

Temporal assessment of changes in parasite infection status identified significant relationships with year of sampling, with a significant decrease in prevalence in 2021, and an almost significant decrease in 2013, with the variable “year” of maximum importance and present in all top models (Table 2 ).

[1] in Table 4 is almost significant, and its sign is the reverse of the coefficient of u i , t , indicating that the increased severity of the COVID-19 pandemic has partially weakened the transmission of unconventional monetary policies to stock index returns.

FNA results from a subset of patients showed an almost significant trend by which higher TI-RADS grades were associated with abnormal cytology findings.

All variables were considered in multivariate analysis, but only the significant or almost significant variables remained in the final model.

Comparison of alpha-beta and alpha-delta DFA was almost significant in both groups.

Overall survival of these patients was similar across the different KMT2A translocations, including those generating KMT2A/MLLT3 fusion; however, t(9;11)(p21.3;q23.3)/ KMT2A::MLLT3 AML had an almost significant improvement of RFS compared to other KMT2A translocations [ 25 ].

Unexpectedly, our results have shown that there is a trend for fathers having 1.1 times stronger preferences for feminine faces than childless men (OR = 1.11 [0.99–1.24]; F 1,25725 = 3.57; P = 0.059, S14), but this almost significant effect varied strongly between men with different siblings’ age, number and sex (for additional details, see S15–S17).

The fibrillar index had an opposite relationship with the whole amount of collagen fibers (R_COL_FBs), almost significant from statistical point of view (p-value of Pearson’s test was just slightly higher than significance level of 0.05) (Table 6 ), meaning that where the index is high, the amount of R_COL_FBs is low (Figure 13K ).

Based on the CE.6 study 13 that showed almost significant benefit from the addition of TMZ to RT, many patients with tumors without MGMT p methylation receive combination therapy including TMZ with the hope of improving outcomes.

Almost significant differences between the specialties in both major categories were observed (see Table 3 ).

The authors showed an almost significant negative correlation between PMN-MDSCs and anti-S IgG ( 87 ), suggesting a possible involvement of MDSCs on B-cell functional modulation.

Whether in pot or field experiments, spraying penoxsulam resulted in an almost significant reduction in the above-ground dry and fresh weight of foxtail millet, and did not gradually decrease after a long period of spraying, which may be related to the inhibition of foxtail millet growth by penoxsulam.

Hematocrit was non-significantly lower at each of the three individual assessment points for Intervention compared to Control arms (Δ = − 0.52 ± 0.54; p = 0.34 for pre-training, Δ = − 0.82 ± 0.14; p = 0.14 for post training and Δ = − 0.99 ± 0.56; p = 0.08 for recovery; mixed effects model comparing arms at each time point) although the difference was almost significant at the final measurement.

The discrepancies between both reports would be related to the low number of human samples and the almost significant difference in the age between control and AAA groups in the study conducted by Gao et al., to the heterogeneity of human aneurysmal lesions, and, regarding preclinical studies, to differences in the mouse models of AAA [ 125 ].

This analysis showed that the effect on the transfer bias of participants having chosen A 2 more frequently than A 1 in the learning phase was almost significant for the Partial version, but not significant for the Complete version ( t -test on the regression weights, Partial: p = 0.054; Complete: p = 0.12).

Almost significant (FDR = 0.107) enriched GO terms of genes with higher expression levels in infected mosquitoes were related to molecular functions such as calcium transportation, cobalamin binding and peptidoglycan muralytic activity (Additional file 3 : Table S2, Additional file 1 : Fig.