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There was no difference in the BMI between men in our study populations and two reference populations even if a highly significant difference in VAT was found.

Correlation analysis between the mean staining intensity of collagen and the mean serum OPN concentration in different grades of fibrosis (F0 through F4) revealed a highly significant positive correlation (r = 0.994).

In giant slalom and super-G, there was a slight trend towards shorter gate distances as the steepness of the terrain increased.

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.

The kinetics of the putatively annotated DON-hexitol did not show a clear trend between wheat lines harboring Fhb1 and without.

Stormwater runoff pollution is a very serious problem, and the temporal and spatial variations in this pollution process can be quite significant in rapidly industrialized cities, because fast urbanization and industrialization are usually characterized by an increase in the number of factories and population density, as well as the drastic changes in land-use, moving from farmland and green land to impervious surfaces [ 12 ].

CRP levels In contrast to the individually modest results for infectious agents and gliadin, the comparisons for CRP showed highly significant differences ( Table 2 ).

They were also significantly higher in the mothers of the BP patients and showed a trend in the mothers of the SZ patients, but not in the fathers. 3.

While individual tests do not withstand correction for multiple comparisons, the number of nominally significant tests and the comparisons showing the expected direction are in significant excess (permutation p=0.019 and 0.004 respectively).

Among these, the correlations between Pb and Hg, and Pb and Cd were 0.698, and 0.771, respectively, and at a P <0.01 level, and, therefore, have a highly significant correlation.

This indicates that, due to the agricultural and human activity in townships in the Aibi Lake Basin, there has been a significant trend of heavy metal accumulation in the sediment of Aibi Lake.

In the presence of IGF-I, adiposity indices (waist circumference), insulin sensitivity (Matsuda index) and ghrelin secretion (ghrelin AUC/100.000), only ghrelin AUC remained a significant predictor for fasting GH and Peak GH, and was borderline significant for GH AUC ( Table 3 ).

However there is a clear trend towards lower numbers of immature NFIX derived colonies compared with MigR1 (CFU-E and CFU-GEMM) with a concomitant increase in more mature myeloid colonies (CFU-GM and CFU-G) ( Fig. 5A ).

For all the methods we observe an increasing trend for low values of N cl , a maximum and then a decreasing trend toward zero as N cl goes to 342.

Nevertheless, although highly significant for the respective nations, these numbers would have no major impact on our results at continental or global scale.

Previous studies also found rs784567 to be borderline significant in bladder cancer [ 36 ] and oral premalignant lesions [ 37 ].

Although the difference was not quite statistically significant due to our relatively small sample size, the percentage of adequate biopsy specimens for CH-EUS-FNA in solid pancreatic masses was greater than the percentage for EUS-FNA.

Welch’s t-test showed highly significant differences between controls and samples for the presence of the major product peak.

4(d) which also shows an increasing trend with increasing acceptor concentrations.

Data from a population-based observational study indicated that children with intermittent exotropia showed a significant trend toward myopia over time [ 27 ].

1D ), in heated mice, although this did not quite reach statistical significance.