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As shown in Table 3 , CF mice had significantly lower levels of serum phytosterols (2.0 fold) together with a decreasing trend of serum cholesterol.

Finally, the liver mRNA levels of TNFα showed an increasing trend in cholesterol-supplemented WT mice ( Fig 1 ).

The ENN 2009 and an analysis of sodium availability in Costa Rican homes, using the HBS methodology from the 2004 and 2013 national household surveys of income and expenditure [ 16 ], showed an increasing trend, and that it is therefore more conservative to assume it has not changed. 2.3 Counterfactual scenarios: Recommended salt intakes in the Costa Rican population Recommended sodium intakes in Costa Rica are represented by two different sets of goals: The first is based on the "National Plan for the reduction of salt/sodium consumption in Costa Rica 2011–2021 [ 11 ]", and complies with the goal set by the WHO of reaching a salt intake of 5 g per person/day for an energy intake of 2000 kcal/d [ 7 ].

Assessment of SAPS2 at ICU admission also showed a trend for higher severity in VAP.

Considering the distribution of responses over the duration of data collection, majority of the responses were obtained during the early phases with a decreasing trend in new responses since the later second week of data collection period.

On the other hand, there has been an increasing trend of overweight and obesity among children [ 15 ], and a report from other population survey in China has illustrated that the prevalence of overweight and obesity for children under 5 years by using WFHZ cutoff points of WHO growth standards were repectively 8.4% and 3.1% in 2013, which is similar with our results [ 13 ].

To help clarify this, we show that the increased accuracy of the inference has both a statistically and practically significant impact on the accuracy of the differential gene expression (DGE) analysis.

In the interaction analysis, the association between PA and RPC was borderline significant in under to normal-weight participants and significant in overweight participants, but not in obese individuals.

L203 see my comments about similar text within the introduction L206 what does "this negative trend seemed to be unclear" mean? A negative trend wasn't observed?

In general, there was a positive trend to an unfavourable outcome with higher exposure of ACE categories among the mothers, partners and within the couples.

Mean temperature from January to February showed a marginally significant, positive relationship with roaring rate.

Generally, for various measures of feeding behavior, AD index, and gut serine protease activities, larvae from reciprocal host plant switch experiments showed a trend towards the natal host plant to which the larvae were transferred.

Despite the uncertain differences due to large standard deviations, a clear trend was low mean ROS levels in all groups on adult day 6.

Indeed, the diversity parameters of the mass-produced bowls indicate a clear trend towards the use of a reduced range of recipes, all equally well-established and markedly differing from each other.

Early marine survivals for Harrison River Chinook had an increasing trend ( S2 Fig ).

In sycamore embryonic axes, an increasing trend of the NADH/NAD + ratio peaked at the germinated stage, whereas in cotyledons, the peak of NADH/NAD + ratio was reported at the 8 th WAI and then rapidly declined at the germinated stage.

The highest Asc level in sycamore cotyledons was observed at the dry seed stage, and a decreasing trend was detected up to the germinated stage.

In addition, it is generally considered to be biologically informative to evaluate terms, especially when they are “nearly significant”.

The correlation coefficients (R 2 ) showed that all the correlations were quite significant.

The ME was calculated as the average percent enhancement or suppression in the slopes using the equation: % ME = S l o p e o f m a t r i x − m a t c h e d c a l i b r a t i o n c u r v e S l o p e o f s t a n d a r d i n s o l v e n t × 100 % The % ME ranged from 68 to 155%, although four analytes exhibited matrix enhancements (≥ 100%)—delta BHC, endrin, endosulfan sulfate, and p, p’- DDT; this indicates that at higher concentrations (≥ 25 μg L -1 ), the matrix effect is not quite significant.

This was observed in the South African study where a positive trend was found between the number of VA supplements and children’s total liver reserves measured using RID [ 58 ].

One might expect precise measurements of canopy area to remain fairly constant from September 3 rd to September 24 th or maybe exhibit a decreasing trend from September 3 rd to October 4 th as the plant went into senescence.

Results Spatiotemporal characteristics of the disposable income of urban and rural residents Temporal variation characteristics The per capita disposable income of urban and rural residents in the Yangtze River Economic Belt showed a trend of rapid growth from 2000 to 2017.

The urban-rural income gap in the study area showed an inverted "U"-shaped development process as a whole, and the relative difference showed an increasing trend.

While such values are hardly significant in terms of analytical sensitivity, the expected counterparts for traditional pooling would range from 3.3 to 5 Cq under optimal amplification conditions.