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However, there is an increasing trend towards early discharge/enhanced recovery protocol (ERP) after surgery [ 13 , 21 ].

KRAS mutations showed a trend toward right-sided tumors and peritoneal metastases.

P-values were classified as non-significant if they were greater than 0.05, significant if they were less than 0.05, and highly significant if they were greater than 0.01 (Table 1 ).

This shows a highly significant control of the infection in the experimental group.

However, the confidence interval ranged from 0.55 to 1.04 (i.e., precise and near statistical significance), and the prognosis tended to be good overall in the early strategy group.

A survey of the trends in the management of GPIs in Indian critical care settings highlighted an increasing trend in prevalence and associated mortality with GPIs [ 12 ].

In the last few decades, there has been an increasing trend to use intra-articular injections of corticosteroids, analgesics/anti-inflammatory drugs, polymerized collagen, anti-cytokine drugs, or hyaluronic acid as alternative modalities to maximize the local effect while minimizing systemic side effects [ 13 ].

While coagulase-negative bacteria are not as virulent as Staphylococcus aureus, there has been an increasing trend for this organism to be associated with complications commonly known to occur with its more aggressive counterpart.

The mean hexagonality of cells also showed a decreasing trend with age.

Both ECOG score and cancer stage at diagnosis had highly significant p-values, <0.001 and 0.005, respectively.

Other variables that showed a trend with reduced odds of survival at 18 months of diagnosis but did not reach statistical significance were small cell lung cancer and advanced stage (II or III NSCLC or extensive SCLC).

ASA with PD-L1 inhibitor showed a trend towards a higher likelihood of achieving CR [adjusted odds ratio (AOR) 1.85] with a p-value close to statistical significance (0.06).

Over the last decade, there was a positive trend with a marginally greater number of minorities appointed at academic ranks, specifically Asians.

As reported by previous studies, term-born children are found to be hypermetropic, while premature children demonstrate myopia which shows a decreasing trend with increasing gestational age [ 28 , 29 ].

Serial troponins were collected on a daily basis, which showed a decreasing trend with a troponin level of 1,271 ng/L recorded on the day of discharge.

Preoperative chronic anemia was associated with postoperative complications at a borderline significant level (Table 7 ).

He was discontinued on flutamide, preparing for cabazitaxel administration; however, his PSA levels decreased (Figure 2 ), and CT scan showed a trend toward shrinkage of the pelvic lymph nodes (Figure 3 ).

NAFLD is showing an increasing trend among obese patients every year.

[ 12 ], and a highly significant difference was observed between the groups with elevated serum levels in the CKD group, which were similar to the findings reported by Pandye et al.

Due to the rarity of EF, there may be significant delays in establishing a proper diagnosis and initiating appropriate treatment, and patients often end up seeing multiple different specialists [ 2 - 7 ].

This has also led to an increasing trend of finding incidental gallbladder malignancies for a presumed benign disease.

Although there was a positive trend when using the checklist, no statistically significant difference was found between the two study groups in terms of voicing a backup plan.

The black triangle height (BTH) and also the black triangle width (BTW) were calculated by image analysis software, which showed a statistically and highly significant difference from the baseline until three and six months postoperatively.

Thus, the mean VAS score in the study group showed a decreasing trend at all measured points of time indicating a good response of the parturients to epidural analgesia with effective pain control.

PPCM is the leading cause of pregnancy-associated heart failure, with a rapid onset, progression, and self-resolution but with a highly significant rate of relapse in subsequent pregnancies [ 4 ].