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No significant differences were observed between the HFDM and HFDMA groups in either tissue, although the HFDMA group showed a trend toward higher inflammatory factor levels.

In addition, this study involved multiple statistical comparisons, which increases the possibility of type I error and necessitates cautious interpretation of nominally significant findings.

The collected scores showed a positive trend, suggesting an increase in patient-reported satisfaction during the supplementation period.

In naïve patients, T-SAT and S-SAT decreased marginally, while PAT increased slightly ( p = 0.0597), indicating a trend toward significance.

Especially very high intake of total SSBs, attributed to over 32% of total daily beverage consumption may be a worrying trend, when comparing it with the results of the analysis of the database of SSBs intake for children and adolescents aged 3–19 years from 185 countries with the result of 23% [ 19 ].

Other physical performance also showed a decreasing trend before the match.

Although nominally significant in unadjusted analyses, the observed between-group difference of approximately 5–7 ng/mL was modest, and median values in both groups remained close to commonly accepted thresholds for vitamin D sufficiency.

Counter-Movement Jump Statistical analysis revealed significant main effects of MCP (F [2,22] = 4.19, p = 0.03, η p 2 = 0.28, large effect) and condition (F [1,11] = 3.85, p = 0.08, borderline significant, η p 2 = 0.26, large effect), while the condition × MCP interaction was not significant (F [2,22] = 2.22, p = 0.13, η p 2 = 0.17, large effect).

Analysis of more recent trends revealed concerning patterns: data from the past five years indicated an increasing trend in dietary sodium exposure, with one notable exception: adults aged 50–69 years (both sexes) showed a consistent decreasing trend since 2017 ( Supplementary Figure S1 ).

This reciprocal interaction suggests that the balance between NF-κB-driven inflammation and PPAR-α-mediated mitochondrial lipid oxidation may be significant for the progression from metabolic stress to endothelial dysfunction and the consequent cardiorenal injury.

The cereal–tuber–legume pattern showed a marginally significant overall association ( p -overall = 0.089) but a significant nonlinear relationship ( p -nonlinear = 0.046), with IDS risk increasing gradually and peaking within a score range of approximately 1–2.5 ( Figure 4 b).

Our data suggest a specific vulnerability in female sex that, although at the margin of statistical significance in this exploratory sample, aligns with documented gender disparities in social isolation and psychological burden during lockdowns.

Table 10 shows the predictor variables which exhibited statistically significant or nearly significant associations with the studied health benefits.

However, in the highly adherent subcohort meeting the minimum 60-day food logging threshold, protein intake demonstrated a decreasing trend and showed a borderline statistical significance in the multivariable model (OR = 0.93, p = 0.0639).

Consistent with this biological property, the sensitivity analysis (n = 16) yielded reductions in IS of −34.3% (from 31.4 ± 8.2 to 20.6 ± 6.0 μmol/L, p < 0.001) and in PCS of −40.0% (from 22.7 ± 5.5 to 13.6 ± 4.5 μmol/L, p < 0.001), both remaining highly significant and quantitatively close to the primary analysis (IS: −38.0%; PCS: −43.0%).

Notably, the OKkio alla SALUTE survey also reported a decreasing trend, particularly in the prevalence of overweight, over the successive survey cycles, decreasing from 23.2% in 2008–2009 to 19.0% in the most recent wave.

Additionally, changes in LDL (−16.2 mg/dL [−34.3, 1.8], p = 0.075) and non-HDL cholesterol (−16.5 mg/dL [−34.4, 1.5], p = 0.069) approached significant differences between groups at week 6. 4.10.

However, because this was a proof-of-concept study and recommendations in sport science have supported interpretation of 90% confidence intervals (CI) equivalent to an alpha level of 0.10 [ 48 , 49 ], we also report outcomes with p -values between 0.05 and 0.10 as trends approaching significance.

Significant interaction effects were observed VANT ( p = 0.032), VO 2 at VANT ( p = 0.028), and submaximal glucose and fat oxidation ( p = 0.034) while time to reach peak VO 2 ( p = 0.083), absolute ( p = 0.075) and relative ( p = 0.057) peak VO 2 approached significance.

Adjusted p -values between 0.05 and 0.10 were interpreted as indicative of a statistical trend, particularly given the small sample size.

Although nominally significant, these findings require cautious interpretation because several FDR-adjusted p -values exceeded 0.5.

Compared with Q1, the adjusted ORs were 0.86 (95% CI: 0.67–1.12) for Q2, 0.74 (95% CI: 0.56–0.97) for Q3, and 0.62 (95% CI: 0.46–0.82) for Q4, with a significant trend across quartiles ( p for trend < 0.001).

NEC incidence was highest in the control (60%), IV arginine (64%), and oral citrulline (62.5%) groups, while donor human milk showed a trend toward lower NEC incidence [ 40 ].

Crucially, the VLCD intervention was associated with a highly significant within-group reduction in parameters of permanent chromosomal damage, effectively halving the frequencies of micronuclei and nuclear buds, independent of baseline variations, in adjusted multivariate regression models.

When stratified by sex, this difference showed a tendency towards significance in men ( p adj. = 0.075), but not in women ( p adj. = 0.729).