“borderline significant”

A cross-sectional study in Bangladesh investigated relationship between hypertension and chronic As exposure through drinking water and identified borderline significant association between As and elevated systolic blood pressure.

Stratification by tumour subsite showed a borderline significant risk reduction of rectal cancer, while this was not seen for proximal colon cancer or distal colon cancer.

Lesioned cartilage exhibits significant Musculoskeletal Age acceleration in the hip (4.029 years, FDR = 0.003) and borderline significant Musculoskeletal Age acceleration in the knee (3.16 years, FDR = 0.067) relative to preserved non‐OA controls (Figure 6A,B ; Table S2 ).

In correlation analyses ( Table 2 ), ln-UHR was positively associated with BMI, ALT, and CAP-defined steatosis, while associations with GGT were modest and borderline significant. ln-UHR was not significantly associated with age, AST, or ALP.

The increase for aircraft noise was very small and only borderline significant (1.01 [0.99, 1.02] per 10 dB L den ).

In the FINRISK 2002 study, Bacteroides was positively associated with BP and Prevotella had a borderline significant negative association with diastolic BP [ 5 ].

In our cross-cohort meta-analysis we observe a trend towards protective associations with several cardiometabolic traits, including a nominally significant association with lower waist-to-hip ratio following adjustment for BMI—a phenotype causally linked to cardiometabolic health 47 , 48 —and a borderline significant association with reduced HbA1C levels (Supplementary Fig. 4 ), which may warrant further investigation.

The correlation between low expression of BMI-1 protein and histological grade 3 and non-endometrioid subtype is weaker and not significant as compared with the significant or borderline significant correlation for low mRNA expression and these two factors.

Increasing age, poor performance status, elevated LDH, elevated β 2 microglobulin and stage III–IV disease were found to be significant or borderline significant poor prognostic factors.

It also adversely affected OS in univariate analysis and was borderline significant for multivariable analysis as far as OS and myelofibrosis-free-survival were concerned. 4.2.

A borderline significant association was also observed for rs328 (Table 5 ) with LDL-C levels in which individuals with the homozygous wildtype had significantly lower levels (3.09 mmol/L ± 0.81) than carriers (3.24 mmol/L ± 0.86 for GC and 3.2 mmol/L ± 0.52 for GG) of the minor G allele.

There was a borderline significant difference in age at menarche, and similar rates of endometriosis symptoms and comorbidities, oral contraception use, and pain control medications between the two groups.

However, a borderline significant uptick was evident in the third period ( p : 0.05; 95% CI, −0.26 to 17.10).

The results revealed a borderline significant relationship in which individuals with high dispositional suspicion gathered less information before reaching final truth-lie judgments.

The questionnaire has never been formally validated, but it has been found that the symptoms of drowsiness and the total dumping severity score have a borderline significant correlation with nadir plasma glucose [ 16 , 22 ].

Women who had ever used herbal medicines had a borderline significant elevated blood lead level.

Our prior research found borderline significant increases in transactional sex among Zambian YW. 15 It is encouraging to find pathways to dissect this potentially negative finding.

Results For LTA A252G, a borderline significant overall association was found, indicating that GG genotype may confer an increased susceptibility to MI compared to AA and AG genotypes.

This is a substudy within a larger clinical study, and it is prone to type 2 errors because of the small number of participants as reflected by many borderline significant p ‐values.

5 , where other innate-related analytes (CSF3, GM-CSF, and CCL1) showed borderline significant elevations.

The intervention effect on adiposity based on TBF% cut offs was borderline significant (OR 0.64, 95% CI:0. 39; 1.05).

2007 ), we found only a weak, borderline significant association between benzene exposure and MAGEA1 methylation.

Using NHANES 2015–2018 data, we found that high NW PA was associated with significantly reduced odds of tinnitus, while high WORK PA was associated with significantly elevated odds, a divergence confirmed by opposing linear trends across ordered categories in both domains, though the NW PA findings were borderline significant and should be interpreted cautiously pending replication.

In the multiple imputation analysis, the borderline significant interaction between age and DDE became insignificant ( p = 0.3).

(2008) found borderline significant effect modification by ozone in two counties, but none in their combined analysis of nine counties in California, and they found no evidence of confounding by ozone.