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We also reported values with p < 0.1 as trending toward significance.

Table 2 shows that the baseline body fat of slow walkers in the 15-week group was about 7.5 kg or 20% higher than in the fast walkers, a difference only approaching significance.

The only exception was percent body fat, which was significantly lower in the fast- than in the slow-walking 30-week group, and the difference in body fat mass between the fast and slow walkers approached significance. 2.2.

However, although the abundance of Firmicutes in the HFD + MDP group showed a decreasing trend (73.68 ± 6.74%) compared to the HFD + PBS group, there was no significant change in the abundance of Firmicutes between the NCD + PBS group and HFD + PBS group (NCD + PBS: 86.43 ± 5.015%, HFD + PBS: 82.03 ± 9.28%), which is consistent with the study of Xie et al.

Plasma lipid resistance to oxidation was also assessed, and was almost significantly associated with overall dietary interventions [ 32 ].

When maternal hemoglobin was <70 g/L, neonatal birth weight significantly increased with the increase of hemoglobin; when maternal hemoglobin was 70–100 g/L, birth weight still showed an increasing trend when maternal hemoglobin was rising; when maternal hemoglobin was >100 g/L, neonatal birth weight significantly decreased with the increase of maternal hemoglobin; when maternal hemoglobin was >130 g/L, neonatal birth weight was more than 100 g lower than that when the maternal hemoglobin was 100 g/L ( Figure 2 a).

The carbohydrate correlation was borderline significant.

A randomized controlled trial demonstrated a 3-month dietary intervention had a fairly significant effect on moderate to severe depression, with a remarkably greater improvement in the dietary intervention group and 32% of patients in this group achieving remission [ 35 ].

Many of the above studies have shown that during the pandemic, people’s family cooking frequency and meal frequency generally increased, and different types of food consumption showed an increasing trend.

Data from previous studies, including data from the Portuguese Household Budget Survey, showed a decreasing trend in the adherence to the MD in the Portuguese population [ 8 , 29 , 30 ].

All the included dietary components showed a significant trend across the indices.

As expected, the price attribute for using this kind of information is highly significant and negatively correlated with consumers’ preferences, indicating a higher disutility function for labelling on the wine bottle as shown in Table 4 , in which class 4 was considered as the reference class.

It is likely that Non-Hispanic Whites, education level higher than high school, married status, and high group of ratios of family income had lower PSA concentrations, with increasing serum triglycerides displaying a significant trend ( p for trend = 0.0036; p for trend = 0.0012; p for trend = 0.0004; and p for trend = 0.0002).

Results also showed a trend in the incidence of elevated Desulfovibrio spp. in children with ASD.

Previous studies showed a significant trend toward age-related functional decline, with some differences between men and women [ 20 ].

We also found an increasing trend of premature rupture of membranes in obese women with twin gestation compared to lean women.

In addition, catalase levels in the benzoate group showed an increasing trend but not significantly.

As such, even within the same weight category, there is likely to be significant variation in vitamin C requirements due to the presence of various confounders.

Moreover, there was a borderline significant inverse association between fluoride and HDL–cholesterol levels among female study participants (p linear trend = 0.04), whereas HDL was not associated with fluoride among male participants. 4.

Student–Newman–Keuls (SNK) multiple-range test was applied to reveal the differences between treatments with a significance level of 0.05 and an extremely significant level of 0.01. 3.

Lutein and zeaxanthin showed a trend of initially increasing and decreasing thereafter with the lactation process, showing a stable level in the middle and late mature milk.

Although these taxa were the major contributors to the above-described DAPC analysis, not all of them showed a clear trend in describing the separation of the LGIMD-ATFIS_1 cluster.

The patients’ nocturnal activity measured by an actigraph showed a significant decrease in the number of waking episodes ( p < 0.025), while the other parameters showed a trend towards improved sleep without reaching statistical significance.

In addition, significant associations were found between high MetS index values and cortical cataracts, and a borderline non-significant association with PSC cataract was also found [ 31 ].

The change in BMI z-score at T6 and T12 in the 2020 group shows an increasing trend, compared to a decreasing trend in 2019 ( Figure 2 ).