Association of plasma endotoxin, inflammatory cytokines and risk of colorectal adenomas.

BMC Cancer · 2013 · PMC3599094 · PMID 23442743

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showed a trendp=0.06so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

Cases showed a trend of having higher plasma TNF-α levels than controls (p=0.06), but none of the other plasma or rectal mucosal cytokine levels differed between cases and controls.

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a trend toward significanceno p-value reported

P-values less than 0.05 were considered statistically significant while P-values greater than 0.05 but less than 0.10 were considered a trend toward significance.

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