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Stomach cancer showed an increasing trend of association in the higher HbA1c quintile (model 1, Ptrend = 0.044; model 2, Ptrend = 0.034).

Our study did not find an increase in BNP levels by DPP-4i, but there was a markedly significant decrease in this biomarker during follow-up time in both groups.

Second, although there was a numerical trend for lower C-reactive protein with DPP-4i, we could not find a statistically significant difference between groups in this marker of inflammation.

However, the early administration was not associated with improved patency of the IRA pre-PCI but showed a trend toward reducing adverse ischemic events post-PCI.

A cervical biopsy was performed if women had abnormal cytology results (e.g., atypical squamous cells of indeterminate significance or more severe lesions), positive HPV results, or abnormal results from colposcopy.

Our study showed a trend toward improved survival for ovarian cancer in Taiwan between 2002 and 2015.

When categorized into three groups according to the tertile of baseline serum NGAL (NGAL tertiles, 1st: 25.4 to 83.7 ng/mL, 2nd: 83.8 to 143.8 ng/mL, 3rd: 143.9 to 567.9 ng/mL), there was a significant trend toward higher serum NGAL levels with older age, hypertension, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, low ejection fraction, high C-reactive protein, higher contrast volume, multivessel coronary disease, larger number of stents, and longer stent length.

We observed a negative trend between DOAC’s treatment and endoscopic intervention.

Although not statistically significant, FMR etiology (HR-1.67, 95% CI 0.98–3.74, p = 0.07) displayed a numerical trend towards higher 1-year mortality.

Results of a meta-analysis that included 18 randomized clinical trials (RCTs) with more than 4000 OSA patients on CPAP therapy did not show a significant decrease of cardiovascular event risk compared with the control group but only a nonsignificant trend of lower rate of death and stroke [ 37 ].

A study of women with endometriosis treated by laparoscopic reported higher overall mental scores than their controls, near statistical significance [ 49 ].

0.6694; p = 0.2256) showed a trend toward being higher for the chronic compared with the acute subgroup, and while the diagnostic accuracy was significantly higher in the former subgroup (18.2397 vs. 4.2660; p = 0.0373).

Due to the popularity of CT lung carcinoma screening and an increasing trend of pulmonary segmentectomy, thoracic surgeons now face more cases of small tumors with an early disease status.

There was a clear trend—from the aorto-iliac towards only infrapopliteal segments—in increasing prevalence of diabetes (28.3% vs. 60.0%), heart failure (5.4% vs. 15.8%), renal failure (16.6% vs. 49.5%), polyneuropathy (4.6% vs. 17.9%) and CLTI stage of LEAD (8.6% vs. 74.0%).

Furthermore, we showed an inverse correlation of baseline IL-1β levels with mLoSSI scores of borderline significance.

A p -value of less than 0.05 and 0.001 was considered significant and highly significant, respectively. 3.

Finally, the differences of the thickness of stratum corneum of both normal rabbit and composite- treated group was non-significant and both groups were highly significant than all other groups ( Figure 7 B). 4.

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Importantly, even if double NHM therapy was not as effective as triple NHM in improving patient outcomes, a clear trend of a possible beneficial effect was present even with double treatment at least in HFmrEF (HR 0.889, 95% CI 0.683–1.156).

However, it is worth mentioning that in this trial, HF hospitalizations showed a trend favouring SafeR [ 41 ].

[ 37 ], our results showed a trend to higher eccentric strength during the NHE in previously injured legs (ES: 1.07–1.32).

Currently, there is a positive trend toward recognition of the AF-TR in AF patients and its prognostic value [ 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 ].

Furthermore, while our data demonstrated a clear trend towards decreased rates of disease recurrence, a multicenter study even demonstrated a five-year surgical recurrence-free survival rate of 98.6% in Japan [ 22 ].

They had a nonsignificant trend towards a lower leakage rate in the 25 mm cohort (15.4%) compared to the 28 mm cohort (10.8%).

At subgroup analysis, these dedicated devices showed a trend towards an even more profound reduced risk of RAO compared to the use of nondedicated devices to achieve hemostasis compressing both ulnar and radial artery simultaneously, although differences between subgroups were not significant ( Figure S13 ).