“almost significant”

Of note, the Fluid and Catheter Treatment Trial reported an almost significant decrease in RRT requirement in the group of patients treated with conservative fluid management for ARDS [ 41 ].

The number of patients that suffered a respiratory event was greater in the Standard group, this difference being almost significant as was the number of severe events ( Table 4 ).

Almost significant improvements were seen in object control skills and there was no study effect for locomotor skills.

Among patients with elevated oxysterols (7DHC), elevated AST levels were identified in 13.6% of patients, elevated GGT levels in 22.7%, and Che values were reduced in 75% of patients, with a statistically almost significant change primarily in the GGT concentration, which is the most sensitive indicator of liver damage.

The changes in HL of the three vegetables treated with ‘Fengdan’ root extract showed the same trend; the root extract was found to be bio-stimulatory at low concentrations (5–10 g L −1 ), with the exception of spinach, and almost significant inhibitory impacts were recorded at 20–40 g L −1 of ‘Fengdan’ root extract (Figs. 1 and 2 ).

Finally citations significantly decline with title length in ten of the eleven UoAs, with the impact almost significant at the 10 % level in the eleventh. 8 As an example of the size of impact, doubling the title length and using a question mark reduces the number of citations by 15.9 and 19.0 respectively for Clinical Medicine. 9 The impact in some other disciplines is much less, but so too are the average number of citations as shown in Table 2 .

Most of the differences were almost significant.

During the 18 years from 2000 to 2017, it was almost significant at the level of 0.1, indicating that the results were affected by the spatial effect [ 22 ].

Applying a fixed-effect approach to our primary analysis reproduced similar results except from the composite endpoint, for which the fixed-effect Cox model yielded an almost significant result in favour of the invasive strategy ( Supplementary data online , Figure S2 and Appendix p 23).

(2018), "There is no definition of a trend toward statistical significance and, therefore, describing 'almost significant' results as a trend introduces substantial subjectivity" and constitutes biased reporting practices.

5 , 22 , 30 , 31 The New Zealand study 22 shows hypertension as a clearly significant independent variable and, in two of the three other studies, this is almost significant. 27 , 30 However, the Swedish study 31 shows no independent effect of hypertension despite the commonest causes of death in patients being cardiovascular, with ischaemic heart disease and cerebral infarction making up the bulk of these deaths, despite these patients being in remission.

Table 5 shows significant differences in phonetics, phonologic, and syntactic values, and almost significant for semantics, whereas the between-groups age and electrophysiological differences were not significant. 3.1.

Melatonin as an add-on to lithium showed an almost significant reduction in weight gain compared to placebo (Mostafavi et al. 2017 ).

Our meta-analysis demonstrated an almost significant lower overall complication rate in LG versus OG group, whereas in the major complication (C.-D.

The effect size comparing the impact of the two intervention groups revealed an almost significant difference favoring Physical Exercise over Support Group, Cohen’s d = 0.68, 95% CI [‒0.18, 1.54].

For GRYLD, differences were almost significant (dropping below significant threshold) on 1D QTL.

By dividing this data into two 5-year periods, this percentage dropped from 47% in the first to 37% in the second (this trend was almost significant).

An almost significant negative correlation was also detected between extended rehab therapy and “physical functioning” ( Figure 2 ).

Interestingly, the interaction between TEM analysis and loosely bound materials shows an almost significant negative effect.

Upright faces elicited almost significant and significant age-related differences for number of false alarms and false alarm efficiency, respectively.

The prognostic value of the 52 CpGs’ methylation status was evaluated, and we found 8 CpGs whose prognostic values were significant in at least one cohort and almost significant in the other ( Figure 3B ).

In the case of diabetes, the effect size was almost significant, and significant results might have been obtained with a larger sample size.

As the variable “Type of stroke” was almost significant, it was considered as a possible confusion factor.

However, stromal cells expressed RANKL more in AB than KOT with almost significant differences [ Table 6 ].

Additionally, pain severity (p=0.067) and L5 temperature impairment (p=0.06) were almost significant.