“borderline significant”

Because of low sample size (and subsequent power less than 80%), borderline significant results are interpreted conservatively to avoid conclusions based on false negatives.

The authors reported that the chemotherapy-treated group showed borderline significant impairment on recognition memory.

The relationship between elevated urinary total OH-PAHs and the decrease of FEV 1 , MMF, and FEF 25% was borderline significant ( p trend =0.066, p trend =0.066, and p trend =0.062, respectively).

However, our study did find a borderline significant association between SGLT2i use and an increased risk of urinary tract infection (OR: 2.31, 95% CI: 1.00, 5.34).

Although there was a trend toward an increase production of IL-6 after ConA stimulation in DHA-fed pups, a borderline significant interaction was also observed between the maternal diet and the OT treatment for which only untolerized pups that received the DHA diet had a higher IL-6 production.

However, pork chops were borderline significant (mOR 8.7 (95% CI 1.0–77)).

In addition, inability to walk up and down steps without a handrail was borderline significant in its association with intention to participate in this intervention.

When data were expressed as mean FBF (without correction for baseline differences) the repeated-measures two-way ANOVA was still borderline significant.

This suggests that the effect of alpha is stronger, but that this cannot be fully corroborated with the statistic as it was borderline significant.

With the exception of duration of migraine history (borderline significant), none of the above mentioned associations were statistically significant.

Mortality risk increased with drug exposure during pregnancy, with borderline significant associations in the first (aHR 1.82, 95% CI 0.98–3.37) and second trimesters (aHR 1.96, 95% CI 0.99–3.86), suggesting heightened vulnerability during early to mid-gestation.

By social class, the negative SIIs for social class among men were significant or borderline significant, while for women the positive SIIs were small and non-significant.

This hypothesis is also supported by the present study, which shows that pregnant women of AMA tended to present with significantly higher rates of chronic disease (possibly greater inflammation), had more children and employment rates (likely more work-family conflicts), and were less likely to meet PA recommendations during pregnancy (borderline significant).

The Women's Health study, a cross-sectional study among 26,966 overweight postmenopausal women, further reported that women with higher intakes of strawberries (≥ 2 servings/week) had a borderline significant reduced risk of elevated C-reactive protein (CRP), versus those who consumed none [ 10 ].

A CTC count of ≥2 was significantly associated with an increased risk of progression and death in the univariate analysis, but the association was borderline significant in the multivariate analysis when the established prognostic factors—platinum-free interval, CA-125 level, number and size of tumor foci, tumor grade and ECOG overall performance status—were considered.

In addition to the B*44 association, we found a borderline significant risk for B*45:01 as a risk factor in two additional cases.

Categorical variables were compared between groups using the chi-square test and Fisher’s test; p < 0.05 was considered significant and p < 0.1 was borderline significant.

Despite these limitations, the borderline significant finding of a higher proportion of those with a current mental disorder reporting unmet need for treatment in the post-lock down period versus before the pandemic warrants further investigations.

In addition, evidence for a weak (borderline significant) carcinogenic effect in lung tumor susceptible mice was found for PM from GMA-SS welding, one of the most prevalent workplace processes [ 11 ].

Patients with myeloma harboring autosomal mCAs had a borderline significant increased risk of hospital admission for infection.

Individually, the ADTDP+ and ADTDP− groups showed a borderline significant increase in the 4R/3R ratio compared to controls ( Supplementary Fig. 2B ).

However, the summary OR and its 95%CI were just above 1 (1.47 and 1.22 to 1.77, respectively), suggesting that this positive association is nearly borderline significant and may have been biased by some confounders introduced by those non-high-quality studies [ 19 , 22 - 24 , 38 ].

Sex-stratified analyses suggested a borderline significant rise in the likelihood of arthritis among women with mold exposure in current study.

Follow-up communiqués (personal communication) with one of the authors did confirm that subjects with a prior CVD history had a significant 27% greater risk of CVD mortality and a borderline significant 17% increase in all-cause mortality on lower sodium intakes.

Results demonstrated a borderline significant difference between baseline and after-rest CKMM values.