“of borderline significance”

In addition, age as a continuous variable was found to be of borderline significance for LR in the AP and significantly different as compared with the NAP.

Sixth, despite our extensive sensitivity analyses, the potential for residual horizontal pleiotropy cannot be fully excluded particularly for associations of borderline significance.

The protective effect of INF-based therapy against SSC was of borderline significance but became significant when multivariate analysis was performed.

Similarly, the Danish study indicated an association of borderline significance between maternal mobile phone use during pregnancy and hearing loss in children at age 7 years, but the authors were cautious about drawing inference due to potential biases. 37 A large Danish cohort study reported 10–20% higher rates of hospitalizations and outpatient visits for migraine among mobile phone subscribers, especially those with a recent subscription. 13 This result was difficult to interpret and may reflect reverse causation, i.e. people with migraine being more likely to use a mobile phone.

The greater reduction in LF in the HBO animals compared with the HBC animals 123 1: Hyperbac og and cxbqen x* DM Brizel et al 11 2A was of borderline significance.

The results were of borderline significance in favour of fluoroquinolones for microbiological failure (0.43 (0.18 to 1.03), n=378, six trials).

In contrast, female survivors of non-CNS tumours had a smaller chance, of borderline significance, of completing upper secondary school than males (RR: 0.83, 95% CI: 0.68–1.01) and were more likely to complete short- and medium-cycle higher education than long-cycle higher education.

Maden et al (1992) showed a 2.4-fold increased oral cancer risk, of borderline significance, in Washington state among men with 30 or more sexual partners compared to 4 or fewer.

A slightly decreased all cancer risk of borderline significance when comparing updated mean HbA1c quartile 2 with the quartile 1 could be neglected, as no effect on all cancer risk was found in the higher quartiles 3 and 4.

Finally, among the past 30-day adult e-cigarette users who were ever smokers, those who were former smokers were about one and a half times more likely (95%CI: 1.00, 2.12) to report using a non-tobacco flavor category or some flavor combination versus tobacco alone compared to current smokers, after adjustment, though this association was of borderline significance (see Table 4 ). 3.6.

On the other hand, small changes in estimates of variables which are not strong predictors of nonresponse and/or outcome could still result in change in conclusions when they are of borderline significance with wide CIs.

Relation of heart failure was of borderline significance.

As discussed, the small sample size was a weakness of the study because the findings of borderline significance could represent a true difference.

After adjusting for clinical features, the independent positive relationship between the use of BB and HF power became of borderline significance.

In stratified analyses, the association with refined grains was stronger in studies using hospital-based compared to population-based controls, though the differences were of borderline significance.

Finally, the risk for both ASD and DD increased with increasing levels of IL-10 relative to GP controls, but risk estimates were of borderline significance (Table 3 ).

In both univariate and multivariate analysis, PSA at first follow-up was a significant predictor of better bPFS and MFS while was significant for the development of LF only in the univariate analysis and of borderline significance in the multivariate analysis.

The overall SIR for prostate cancer was increased to 1.06 (95%CI 0.99–1.12) but no individual UL subtype showed an association (yet for bladder cancer in parents the SIR of 1.12 was of borderline significance, 95%CIs 0.99–1.25).

age, gender and cancer type) and findings of borderline significance for the role of deprivation in adjusted analyses, may be due to lack of statistical power to detect small effects.

Both at baseline and at last appointment, patients not reaching target BP were marginally more likely to be on other vasodilator drugs, though this was of borderline significance.

In that study, the mean cross-sectional area of the ET lumens of the inflamed temporal bone was significantly smaller than that of the noninflamed bones only in the pretympanic portion, whereas the differences were of borderline significance in the other bony portions and the differences were not significant in all the cartilaginous portions ( 13 ).

Families with one child had an increased risk of depression but of borderline significance.

However, the ARIC study risk estimates did not show a significant decrease in the risk for CHD among African Americans, and the FHS risk estimates for Mexican Americans showed a reduction in risk over time that was of borderline significance.

However, surgery was of borderline significance.

The study identified findings of borderline significance regarding the association between long sleep duration and musculoskeletal pain.