Barely Significant
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Sedation improves early outcome in severely septic Sprague Dawley rats.

Crit Care · 2009 · PMC2750194 · PMID 19691839

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narrowly missed achieving significanceP = 0.05actually significant
While both sedatives reduced systemic levels of the inflammatory cytokine TNF-alpha ( P < 0.05); only dexmedetomidine reduced the IL-6 response to CLIP, though this narrowly missed achieving significance ( P = 0.05).

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of borderline significanceno p-value reported
The achieved significance value of P = 0.05 means the results are of borderline significance though we suspect this is due to a reduced sample size in the midazolam group.

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