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The decrease of HIC showed a trend for association with a risk of incident metabolic syndrome [ 28 ].

Although both proteins were not significantly regulated compared to the other stimulation condition a clear trend was observed.

DTaP induces type I interferons and IFNγ, but downstream signaling is stronger in monocytes stimulated with plain Al(OH) 3 After 24 hours of stimulation, both Al(OH) 3 and DTaP-stimulated monocytes showed a trend towards increased gene expression of the type I interferon IFNβ .

Xu and Baumrind[ 44 ] found no significant correlation between mesiodistal movement of the root apex and root resorption in adolescents, whereas Baumrind et al.[ 45 ] reported a highly significant regression coefficient between incisor root resorption and the amount of root apex retraction.

A strong trend was found for site, however, significant differences between sites were not found at 40 Hz, likely due to low n (p = 0.0588) ( Fig 2 ).

As seen in Fig 1 , there has been an increasing trend in the number of concussions reported by Major League Baseball (MLB) catchers, and a majority are due to foul tip impacts[ 5 ].

However, blood urea nitrogen/creatinine ratio was not related with NT pro-BNP in the study population, notwithstanding a strong trend towards higher NT pro-BNP values (i.e. higher neurohumoral activation) in LVAD than in HFrEF patients.

The LPSp-treated mice showed a trend towards an increase in phagocytosis compared with the HFD-fed mice.

Results indicated the presence of low amount of this human transcript at each time point, with a decreasing trend from day 8 to day 21 ( Fig 11 ).

Majority of the results of these function tests showed no significant correlations, but as shown in Fig 5 , Table 1 , and S1 Table , the liver function tests for ALB and AST showed marginally significant correlations with lactate Cmax and AUC.

Particularly noteworthy was the highly significant increase in the activity of immune and metabolic processes in the perilymph from patients with vestibular schwannoma.

Thirdly, there is no estimate of costs associated with overall hospital stay nor post-hospital healthcare utilisation, which may be significant in this very old population.

CHWs often undertake different roles in T2DM self-management, with studies showing this to be an increasing trend between 2000 and 2015.

They showed highly significant differences among parents as well as the hybrids and demonstrated that both additive and non-additive gene effects were significant.

In addition, Lac/Cr in tumor showed a trend towards association with OS-1, with higher Lac values predicting poorer outcome (AUC = 0.78, 95% CI: 0.49 to 1.00).

A fixed effects model showed a trend in improving family functioning at post-intervention in intervention group couples.

Although rMRP14-injected mice showed a trend towards an increase in inflammatory molecules compared with PBS-injected controls during Pb-infection, we found no significant differences among the two groups.

Plant species composition did only show a weak trend towards differences among the urbanisation classes, while species composition of the predaceous spiders significantly shifted with increasing degree of urbanisation.

To evaluate the use of measures that can be more easily obtained at the time of diagnosis, we also studied a model with a subset of radiographic measures, including effusion grade, OA grade and CrCL D ; this model approached significance, and resulted in a likelihood ratio of 7.6 for development of CR.

Again reflecting the experimental values, an observed trend indicating serovar 4b had a lower growth rate (average = 0.02857 h -1 ) and growth yield (average = 0.01270 gDCW/g glucose) than either serovar 1/2a (0.05835 h -1 and 0.02594 gDCW/g glucose) or 1/2b (0.07500 h -1 and 0.03333 gDCW/g glucose).

This matches an observed trend over time toward shorter recovery time; Fig 2 shows this general change over the study period.

In contrast, both variables showed opposite trends with an increase in probes’ binding energy; absolute cross-hybridization has a growing trend, whereas relative has a decreasing trend (Figure D in S2 Fig ).

In our study, we observed an increase of ROTEM ML values postoperative which suggests increased fibrinolysis but simultaneously, fibrinogen values already revealed an increasing trend.

Following multivariable adjustment, we observed a consistent association between high intrinsic effort at work and dyspeptic symptoms, although the association was only marginally statistically significant in 1996.

Using this approach, highly significant variations were observed between the two groups as evident from high AUC and MCC values obtained in the ROC plot of the testing set.