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Notably, QC and SV scores were discordant: SV showed generally higher values, and an increasing trend of differences with VC severity.

We also noticed a decreasing trend in ALT, LDL, and fasting insulin and an increasing trend in HDL.

Using this definition of DS, there was a trend towards a greater adherence to the MeDi being associated with reduced odds of DS, but the association was borderline significant (OR = 0.72, 05% CI [0.46; 1.11] and OR = 0.57, 95% CI [0.36; 0.90], respectively, for moderate and high adherents compared with low adherents; p -value for trend = 0.053) ( Table 4 ). 3.6.2.

For all tests, p < 0.05 was considered statistically significant; p < 0.01 was highly significant.

The results revealed a highly significant association between higher maternal age and grand multipara.

Second, there was no significant association between calcium intake and falling shown in the present findings, while that between vitamin D and falling was only marginally significant.

The data show an increasing trend in the proportion of below-average IQs as children’s high-iodine concentrations increased.

We performed a chi-squared test for the trend in proportions for the categorical data and a Mann Kendall trend test for the quantitative data, respectively, to check whether the data had a significant trend.

A post hoc analysis suggested a causal relationship between dietary sodium and kidney growth and showed a trend toward an association between lower salt intake and a slower rate of decline in estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) [ 12 ].

While our recent study showed a trend toward lower NAFLD prevalence in rural areas compared with urban settings (23.7% (95% CI: 15.5–31.8) vs. 32.4% (95% CI: 28.6–36.1)), the difference did not reach statistical significance [ 10 ].

There was a non-significant trend of reduced lean tissue index in SPG11 ( Figure 1 G) which was highly significant when correcting for age and sex with previously obtained reference values ( Figure 2 C).

More than 3.4 million adolescents are obese and the age of obese people shows a decreasing trend, which affects the health and development of teenagers [ 1 ].

This study is highly significant because it entailed a longitudinal investigation of participants who were divided into three seafood intake based groups to verify the correlation of seafood consumption with the CVD risk over a 10 year period.

Even the recent (and most thorough) systematic review and meta-analysis that demonstrated a significant positive association between iron supplementation in pregnancy and GDM risk [ 43 ] did so with highly significant heterogeneity.

There was a highly significant reduction in LDL cholesterol linked to the vegan diet; total or LDL cholesterol was unaffected by dietary approach.

These results across all papers show that there is an overall trend of a greater reduction in mean systolic blood pressure in participants following a VLCD compared to those following non-dietary therapies.

However, the association between higher BASDAI score and lower omega-3 PUFA consumption was close to significance.

Overall, a notable trend was that between 1974 and 1991, few studies investigating diet and MS were published, with no more than two articles found from the Web of Science database every year.

There did not appear to be a movement to cheaper shops for the food insecure, but rather they appeared to try to replace with click and collect (albeit the association was not quite significant).

This meta-analysis indicated that FA is common among Chinese people, with an increasing trend in prevalence during the past two decades.

Of note, while not significant in the adjusted model, the indirect association between distance traveled to utilized supermarket/large grocery store and fruit and vegetable consumption was approaching significance, and future research should explore this relationship further.

During the past three decades, from 1990 to 2019, there was an overall decreasing trend in the prevalence of vitamin A deficiency and iodine deficiency but an increasing trend in the prevalence of protein-energy malnutrition worldwide although great differences existed across different regions and populations [ 7 , 8 , 9 ].

* p < 0.05 indicates significant difference and ** p < 0.01 indicates a highly significant difference. 3.

With the increase in training days, the duration of escape latency in each group showed a decreasing trend ( Figure 1 ).

After adjusting for all covariates, higher levels of total dietary protein intake and vegetable protein intake were associated with higher muscle mass, showing an increasing trend ( p trend < 0.05).