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Overall, even a small reduction in time away from academics and athletics due to a concussion may be significant for many young athletes.

This study also demonstrates a decreasing trend in resistance to piperacillin/tazobactam, imipenem, cefepime, meropenem, ciprofloxacin, aztreonam, levofloxacin, and ceftazidime over five years, potentially reflecting judicious antibiotic use.

On comparing the mean ectocranial and mean endocranial scores of 100 subjects by applying an independent t-test, a highly significant difference was observed in all three sutures.

Because postpartum body changes are frequently unanticipated and unpredictable, body-related dissatisfaction might be significant.

Moderate fluid intake (40-59.9 oz/day) showed a trend toward reduced odds of edema (OR = 0.67), supporting the hypothesis that adequate hydration may contribute to improved fluid balance in pregnancy.

In this study, mean SBP showed a decreasing trend from 132.12±6.18 to 125.53±13.52 in Group A while 133.00±4.73 to 128.21±17.91 in Group B.

Mean SeP levels (4.11 ± 1.47 μg/mL) demonstrated a nonsignificant trend toward elevation in patients with retinopathy and nephropathy.

The association was highly significant, as evidenced by a p-value of 0.0001 as shown in Figure 5 .

cesarean delivery emergency cesarean surgical site complication wound complication wound dressing pmc-status-qastatus 0 pmc-status-live yes pmc-status-embargo no pmc-status-released yes pmc-prop-open-access yes pmc-prop-olf no pmc-prop-manuscript no pmc-prop-legally-suppressed no pmc-prop-has-pdf yes pmc-prop-has-supplement no pmc-prop-pdf-only no pmc-prop-suppress-copyright no pmc-prop-is-real-version no pmc-prop-is-scanned-article no pmc-prop-preprint no pmc-prop-in-epmc yes pmc-license-ref CC BY Introduction The cesarean section rate worldwide is showing an increasing trend, from below 7% in 1990 to 19% in 2014 [ 1 ].

There was a nonsignificant trend toward older age in the ankylosis group in this study.

Our data suggests an increasing trend of abnormal nutrition, with obesity increasingly replacing thinness in our population.

This may be significant considering the very low number of patients with PMR.

Patients receiving lower fluid volumes (<0.15 mL/kg/min) had lower overall complication (19% vs 25%) and leak rates (3.2% vs 6.2%); however, these differences did not reach statistical significance, indicating a possible trend toward benefit [ 33 ].

Interestingly, the proportion showed a decreasing trend that tapered off until early morning, 3.00-5.59 (1%).

Neonatal hospitalization showed a decreasing trend (R2 = 0.7156).

As there had been no episode of fever since the commencement of periungual desquamation and inflammatory markers were on a decreasing trend, the CRP started at 18 mg/l on the day of admission but increased significantly to 122.60 mg/l by the third day.

An increasing trend of antimicrobial resistance was observed among the isolated pathogens to the commonly used antibiotics.

Since point-of-care ultrasound is a relatively new EM procedural competency skillset, the frequent inclusion of retention testing as an outcome measure in these articles may be seen as an encouraging trend and a reflection of the increasing attention on skill decay in medical education literature.

Although team-based care may require an upfront investment, there may be significant benefits from improved efficiency.

In recent decades, there has been an increasing trend in the CS, with repeat caesarean being one of the major contributors to rising rates.

This finding corroborates the observation in our study, where an increasing trend of hypoferritinemia was observed as the level of education decreased.

The average admission rates were stable over the years, but an increasing trend (3.3% to 5.8%) was seen for the children aged 5-10 years.

However, this association was only marginally significant, with a p-value of 0.05.

Identifying additional factors that contribute to poor sleep quality in patients with RA may be significant in improving their health-related QoL (HRQoL), a numerical score that can be measured using the 36-Item Short Form Survey (SF 36) [ 11 ].

Conclusion: The correlation of waist circumference as an indicator of IR was highly significant with body mass index, postprandial blood sugar, systolic blood pressure, and diastolic blood pressure.