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One study that developed a predictive model for the development of chronic TMD found the CPI to be a highly significant variable in the model [ 18 ].

There was a numerical trend towards a higher MACE rate with the monotherapy, which was predominantly driven by stroke events.

However, with a p -value = 0.09, the association between condylar base fracture and ORIF was close to being significant, suggesting a tendency to treat single condylar base fractures with ORIF, with 24 (58%) open surgeries out of 41 condylar base fractures.

There was a nonsignificant trend towards a higher incidence of MACE in the monotherapy group, which was predominantly driven by the difference in stroke events.

Indeed, data described a significant trend toward better CC quality and worse CR among higher weight and height classes, regardless of the aid of any feedback during the performance.

Subsequently, we evaluated if there was an increasing or decreasing trend in the study biomarkers by fitting a line for each measure during the time points and evaluating the slope (a negative slope indicates a decreasing trend and a positive slope indicates an increasing trend).

After adjusting for age, sex, and Frailty Index, the use of OAC showed a trend toward a lower risk of mortality, but this did not reach statistical significance (HR 0.52, 95% CI 0.21–1.25, p = 0.14).

However, regarding this particular comparison, in the meta-analysis by Wang et al., the difference was only marginally statistically significant [ 70 ].

N 1 , N 12 -diacetylspermine, spermine, and spermidine showed an increasing trend along with progress.

In a previous study, catheter ablation for high PVC burden showed a trend in decreasing the development of new-onset AF [ 10 ].

Although not statistically significant, a clear trend showed that most PE occurred in patients with appendiceal malignancy.

Although the statistical significance of the difference in radiologic union time is not apparent ( p = 0.0548), the shorter union time observed in the patients without a pronator quadratus origin release is nearly significant.

Consistent with these results, in the VE-ER group only, there was a trend for decreased EE based on the DEBQ_E subscale score and an increasing trend in the ability to resist eating while experiencing negative emotions (based on the WELSQ_NE subscale score) from baseline to the end of treatment.

However, the protective effect of dietary interventions on GDM was marginally non-significant when they were not combined with exercise during pregnancy in high-risk women.

Furthermore, the synergistic effect of ranolazine when combined with class III antiarrhythmic drugs like amiodarone and dronedarone seems to be highly significant.

Similarly, individuals with CHEK2 LOF in this study also showed a trend, which did not, however, reach statistical significance, towards an earlier age of onset (5.67 years; 29.5 vs. 35.17; p = 0.2315; Table 3 ).

Bootstrap values of >70% indicate highly significant clustering, whereas values < 50% indicate that the clustering is statistically insignificant.

Among these are patients with acute myocardial infarction (MI) with CS [ 6 ], while several studies have shown a decreasing trend in mortality among patients with CS [ 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 ].

The majority of sarcopenic patients presented a substantial absence of variability before and after the TAVR procedure, although the statistical analysis showed an overall trend towards a worsening of life expectancy in these patients.

The effect of CIT was also negative for total T cell count at T12 (r = −0.22, p = 0.02) and CD4 T cells (r = −0.26, p = 0.009), whereas CD8+ T cells were barely affected by CIT (r = −0.19, p = 0.04, marginally significant for degrees of freedom).

There is an increasing trend in PPI prescriptions in internal medicine and gastroenterology [ 12 ].

This study, despite the important difference in the variable to be predicted, highlighted the need to consider common variables such as age and sex, both of which are highly significant to the predictive capacity of each model.

However, when portal vein thrombosis was compared between the two groups, highly significant statistical differences were observed.

Age also showed a marginally significant positive association with quality-of-life scores.

inactive) only showed a trend towards reduced IL-6R expression, without statistical significance.