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Such inclusion might be significant, because the relationship between subclinical pulmonary and cardio-metabolic disease can contribute to a decline in lung function, especially among individuals with abnormal ferritin level.

When considered in temporal scale, the total economic loss (USD millions) as well as per hectare loss (USD) due to 23 soybean diseases showed general decreasing trend from 1996 to 2005, an increasing trend from 2005 to 2012 and a decreasing trend from 2012 to 2016 ( Fig 5A ).

The association of gender was borderline significant, and there was no association with age ( Table 1 ).

For this analysis we have selected markers that in the overall population were significantly associated with TL change or were close to significance.

At the provincial level, it can be inferred from Fig 5 , during the sample period, except for Shanghai and Zhejiang with the optimal efficiency, green water use inefficiency in most other regions exhibited an increasing trend, only Jiangsu and Jiangxi displayed a decreasing trend.

The relative abundance of Bacteroidia showed a decreasing trend from 55.99% in the normal control group to 55.06% in HFF, 52.98% in MSG and 42.32% in the MSG+HFF groups.

The features are essentially significant to the visual object tracking tasks.

Of these 3 factors, the presence of sensory symptoms showed a slight trend towards neuropathic abnormalities, but without reaching statistical significance.

There was no significant difference between these 2 groups across all gestations, although there appeared to be a trend towards significance at V2 and V3, with the patients in the previous preterm delivery group having a trend towards a shorter cervical length compared to those with no previous preterm delivery.

Nevertheless, even in the absence of an increasing trend, management actions and conservation efforts aimed to maintain the viability of foraging habitats in the MAB for NRU loggerheads and minimize threats to sea turtle survival in the MAB are therefore critical for this subpopulation’s long-term stability and continued recovery [ 3 , 53 – 54 ].

Although some samples showed changes, a significant trend was not observed.

Although any report of night shift work was not associated with atopy risk (OR ever nightshifts = 1.13; 95% CI = 0.97–1.31), we observed a suggestive trend of increased risk of atopy in offspring associated with longer duration of maternal night shift work (OR ≥6yrs night work = 1.27; 95% CI = 0.99–1.63; P trend = 0.07).

RE analyses showed that, compared with mNMB, dNMB was associated with a marginally statistically significant 0.5-point improvement in surgical field rating score: pSMD = 0.51 (95% CI: 0.05, 0.98; Fig 3 ).

According to Riegel et al., lack of fluid restriction in patients’ diets may be explained by difficulties in the precise determination of one’s fluid intake, as well as not testing for thirst levels, which may be significant to this area of compliance [ 15 ].

After completing the Likert scale nurses were asked to rate their overall level of practice regarding prevention of SSI, and the result revealed that fifty-six (13.7%) of the participants rated their level of practice as unsatisfactory which is highly significant in number and effect on the rate of SSI and its prevention.

A significant trend towards higher scores was found as the level of clinical experience increased, with mean overall scores ranging from 66.97 (SD 10.26) to 93.42 (SD 13.46) out of 115 for rater #4 (a medical student) and rater #1 (a senior physician), respectively.

This could be shown by the finding that mice injected with sitagliptin treated bacteria showed a trend for better survival compared to mice injected with DMSO treated bacteria or untreated bacteria.

Other exposures approached significance including coal, uranium and hard rock mining during the earliest period (1883–1929) when safety from exposures was not considered.

A significant trend in terms of size fractions of FPOM was identified: with decreasing C:N and C:P ratios particle size decreases as well.

None but one crude odds ratio was somewhat significant, which was leafyvegLow:smokingYes compared to leafyvegMedium:smokingNo.

However, there appears to be a positive trend between number of nights in a hospital with income level.

Compared with SQSTM1-NUP214, the binding of SQSTM1-NUP214 FGmut showed a trend toward lower binding across all genes but the difference was not statistically significant.

dentine thickness controlling for molar size) did not have any significant effect or at least a positive trend on cementum apposition as predicted.

In two cases, an adjacent value is also not significant (but always with a markedly higher value of t that approaches statistical significance).

Meanwhile, another study of body height and cancer identified a significant trend of increasing overall cancer risk with increasing body height in a large prospective cohort of 1.2 million middle-aged women in the United Kingdom [ 27 ].