Additionally, blood transfusions were more frequent in the middle-aged group than in the older group, with a strong tendency toward significance (15% vs. 4%; p = 0.038).
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Age-Related Variations in the Clinical Presentation and Treatment Outcomes of New-Onset GPA: A Longitudinal Study.
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These differences were close to being significant ( p = 0.051 and p = 0.037, respectively). 3.6.
When differences were statistically significant ( p < 0.05) or approached significance ( p close to 0.05), the Bonferroni correction was applied to determine which age groups showed significant differences.
According to this correction, p < 0.017 was considered statistically significant, while p -values between 0.017 and 0.05 were interpreted as approaching significance.