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Both vitamin D and folate levels showed only nominally significant effects.

Particularly, males showed a trend of improvement of their local clustering whereas females exhibited a significant decrease of local clustering, which was further validated in the FA-based structural network ( S1 and S2 Tables).

Among the top overrepresented terms, based on highly significant FDRs and number of differentially transcribed genes (i.e. > 30 microarray features) associated with each term, were those associated with muscle cell growth and development (e.g. sarcomere, myofibril) and cardiac muscle/heart development.

3A ): (1) The amount of Gammaproteobacteria in controls maintained the same predominance for 9 days before NEC onset, yet it is significantly higher in controls than in NEC samples at 7–9 and 4–6 days prior to NEC onset (p = 0.01 and 0.008, respectively), and not significantly different just before disease onset as a result of Gammaproteobacteria from NEC cases showing an increasing trend while approaching disease.

We found an increasing trend in the weighted and unadjusted prevalence of metabolic syndrome and high-risk FRS in males and females according to deciles of albuminuria ( Fig. 3 ).

Although the OLS regression was highly significant, we believe that model quality can be further improved, at least for δ 18 O and δ 2 H.

Contrary to expectations, we did not find either δ 18 O or δ 2 H correlated with altitude, probably because we considered a wide area characterised by fairly significant climatic variability which may have masked the altitude effect.

The difference between the fraction of SS of wild and captive-reared ABFT was highly significant.

95% confidence intervals plotted for each data point indicate that there are generally highly significant differences in performance.

Although nine of the 74 models were nominally significant at α = 0.05, this was not much higher than might be expected by chance, and the directions of the associations were inconsistent and contradictory.

p<0.05 and p<0.001 were considered to be statistically significant and highly significant respectively.

Similarly, the 4-function CD8 + T cells showed a trend towards higher levels in VC than in NC (3,365 VS 2,258 cells/ml, not significant).

However, without removal of the outlier, only marginally significant correlations were shown between the biomass ratio (log-transformed) and allochthony in any of the groups ( Table 1 ).

The perceived quality of hearing was worse in the N-Acetylcysteine group at 6 weeks, but this difference was only marginally significant and not present at 1 year.

These confounding factors most likely did not occur however, since the results from the statistics showed a strong trend in overall learning with both frequent gamers and non-gamers, which most likely would have been less pronounced had our subjects been sleep-deprived.

However, for the women, after adjusting for age and other confounders, a significant trend was found; but there was no difference among the groups.

Although the IL-24-mediated inhibitory activity was not statistically significant compared to the control, it definitely showed a trend for continued inhibition on [Ca 2+ ] release over time indicating abrogation of SDF-1/CXCR4 signaling.

We found that the production of IFN-γ decreased during the first 12 weeks of treatment and then it gradually increased, and there was an increasing trend in TNF-α production throughout the treatment course.

Linear statistical models correlating genotype and phenotype provided highly significant allele-specific MR estimates of 0.596 for the wild type allele CYP2C9*1 , 0.405 for CYP2C9*2 (68 % of wild type), and 0.113 for CYP2C9*3 (19 % of wild type).

The MAF of rs868005, rs13239907 and rs2856728 showed nominally significant differences between Type 2 PCV and control, but the MAF of only rs868005 remained significant after the Bonferroni correction was applied.

Although we observed a significant trend towards higher PVRs in the deceased cohort, echo-derived PVR was not independently associated with death after adjusting for clinical comorbidities.

Altogether, these findings suggest a possible trend of a lower expression of immune genes in symbiotic animals compared to cured animals; nevertheless further expression analysis is necessary to confirm these findings.

Here, activation strength level with value greater than or equal to 1 is considered as a practically significant value from zero in this study.

As with the observations of CANONIC study [ 2 ], this study also confirmed a clear trend for an increase in 90-day mortality in parallel to the increase in EASL-CLIF ACLF grade.

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