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The last mortality study of the ACC showed a marginally significant increased mortality risk in nonmalignant pulmonary conditions when comparing men who served in Vietnam versus those who served outside Southeast Asia (adjusted relative risk (ARR) = 2.20, 95% CI: 0.99, 4.91).

The AACEs presented an increasing trend from 2007 to 2015, growing from 331.9729 million tons in 2008 to 379.9784 million tons in 2015, an increase of 13.2%, and a declining trend in 2016, when it fell to 373.9123 million tons.

The association between education and PhenoAA is only marginally significant, which is consistent with a lack of association between education and PhenoAA in African-American women in another study [ 24 ].

Linear regressions further confirmed significant or marginally significant positive relationships between women’s LH, FSH, T, and E2/T levels and their reported state of being in love. 4.

We found no differences in estradiol (E2), prolactin (PRL), or cortisol levels (CT) between single women and those in love (though group differences in E2/T levels approached significance).

Thus, the experimental group’s MVPA increase at six weeks may be practically significant as it contributed to nearly 30 min/week more PA than observed at baseline.

The definition of marginal significance raises some controversy in the statistical field.

Moreover, the modern lifestyle with a clear trend of increased consumption of alcohol, tobacco, and fast and junk foods adds new challenges and risk factors that should be taken into consideration in scientific research on aflatoxins for future decades [ 1 , 149 , 260 ]. 3.4.

From 1985 to 2005, the CRF of girls at all ages showed a decreasing trend, but from 2005 to 2014, the CRF of girls at almost all ages rebounded, except for those aged 19 in college.

Spatiotemporal Variations of Urban CO 2 Emissions As shown in Figure 4 , total urban CO 2 emissions showed a trend of increasing year by year, from less than 2 × 10 8 t in 2000 to nearly 8 × 10 8 t in 2015, which is four times the amount in 2000.

The effect of each factor on urban CO 2 emissions is highly significant.

Urban areas in China exhibited an increasing trend in the period of 1992–2015, from 4.88 × 10 3 km 2 to 31.32 × 10 3 km 2 [ 19 , 20 ].

Interestingly, small but meaningful changes in favor of the INT group with slightly significant results were also found for lower-extremity strength and static balance with closed eyes.

It should also be noted, however, that psychological variables (PTSD symptoms, depressive symptoms, etc.) showed a trend-level inverse association with performance in the 20 m shuttle run test.

Summary of Certainty of Evidence Assessment of the certainty of evidence for the highly significant effects of exercises on total score of addiction level and four individual sub scores by the GRADE (grading recommendations assessment development and evaluation) criterion is given in Table 4 . 3.4.3.

The incidence rate of cellulitis after acupuncture treatments seems to show an increasing trend with time, possibly due to a greater acceptance of acupuncture treatments among Taiwan’s general public, thereby causing more severe or multiple chronic disease patients to accept acupuncture treatments.

In this study, most participants were better in a drawing test, and improvement in fine movements was quite significant.

By analyzing the equation between the genetic toxicity and the parameters of FQs, it can be seen that the coefficients before TE, EG, Q YY , Q ZZ , Q XZ , Q YZ , CT, GE, log P , HL, and Mol Wt were all positive, indicating that they had positive effects on the genetic toxicity of FQs; that is, the genotoxicity of FQs showed an increasing trend with increasing TE, EG, Q YY , Q ZZ , Q XZ , Q YZ , CT, GE, log P , HL, or Mol Wt.

In addition, the coefficients before q + , q − , E LUMO , PF, Q XX , Q XY , BP, MP, MR, IR-(C–O) svf, IR-brbvf, IR-mbvf, Raman-(C–O) svf, Raman-brsvf, and Raman-msvf were all negative, indicating that they had negative effects on the genetic toxicity of FQs (i.e., with increasing q + , q − , E LUMO , PF, Q XX , Q XY , BP, MP, MR, IR-(C–O) svf, IR-brbvf, IR-mbvf, Raman-(C–O) svf, Raman-brsvf, or Raman-msvf, the genotoxicity of FQs showed a decreasing trend). 3.2.

T-Tests revealed no sex differences in all primary variables ( p s ≥ 0.258), yet results showed marginally significant higher CVC for women ( M = 7.50, SD = 1.24) than men ( M = 7.06, SD = 1.24), t (110) = 1.75, p = 0.084. 3.1.

Pregnant women who participated in WIC during pregnancy delivered children with 36 g higher birthweight compared to women who did not participate in the program (95% CI: −7.3 g, 79.4 g); however, the association was only marginally significant.

Several studies recently published show a decreasing trend in alcohol consumption by adolescents both in Europe and in the United States [ 27 , 28 ].

The DDT contamination in the environment has a decreasing trend, and it can be assumed that this trend will continue.

At the same time, the prediction part showed that the highest monthly incidence per year has a decreasing trend after 2015.

From January 2011 to May 2016, the annual maximum values showed an increasing trend, however, the ARIMAX model could accurately predict from this increasing trend that the maximum monthly incidence decreased in 2016.