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One of eleven meta-analyses evaluating the risk for SLE associated with OC exposure had a marginally significant result.

All p-values presented are 2-tailed, with p<0.05 considered statistically significant and p<0.10 marginally significant, before correction for multiple testing.

For the sleep measures, statistical significance criterion for p-values and p-values for trend were reduced to p = 0.05/5 = 0.010 (marginal significance: p = 0.10/5 = 0.020).

However, photosynthetic efficiency (here, photosynthesis standardization to photo-collecting pigments) also seemed to be related to temperature, revealing a slight trend towards an optimum between 26 and 28°C ( Fig. 4B ).

MCV was not affected in males, but showed an increasing trend in females.

The moderate level of sequence divergence (2.4%; Table 4 ) detected between eastern and western Mindanao (both supported as distinct lineages in the GMYC analysis, but with marginally significant migration rates detected in analysis of microsatellite data; Table 4 ) may indicate that separate tarsier conservation programs for these populations are warranted if future studies confirm their distinctiveness.

Increased MRSA knowledge did not increase the likelihood of seeking care, although there was a trend towards significance for knowing someone who had had a MRSA infection being more likely to seek care (among respondents who were aware of MRSA).

All the slopes (β1) were positive and statistically different from zero, indicating an increasing trend of the caesarean rate.

More recent publication years (β = .65, Z = 2.2, p <.05), but not years of data collection, were associated with higher proportions of credit card debt, and the association between year in which the data was collected and proportion of general debt (β = .39, Z = 1.9, p <.06) and financial problems (β = −.52, Z = 1.7, p <.06) was marginally significant and inconsistent (positive for general debt and negative for financial problems; Table 4 ).

Therefore the highly significant decline in ADR observed among treated patients with available resistance test was not influenced by a declining duration of previous ART exposure or by increasing ART interruptions over time in the study population.

Despite large sample, our study unfortunately lacked power to detect the potential differences between patients and controls in rare autoimmune diseases, and we observed several marginally significant differences.

Results Our results show a significant effect of the GoodOD training over developed ontologies by topics: (a) a highly significant effect was detected in three topics from the analysis of the ontologies of untrained and trained students; (b) both positive and negative training effects with respect to the gold standard were found for five topics.

These associations showed no or at highest borderline significance.

We only found a tendency of borderline significance between severity of WML and cognitive performance.

ETAP, mainly elastin but also fibulin, fibrillins and latent TGF binding proteins, showed a trend towards higher values in the proximal ovine vagina, which was also the most elastic biomechanically (least permanent strain) compared to the distal regions.

In addition, Tumor Necrosis Factor alpha (TNFA) was highly up-regulated in adipose tissue of FDRs, as was the expression of two markers of macrophage infiltration, CD68 and monocyte chemotactic protein-1 (MCP1/CCL2), which was doubled and highly significant ( Table 4 ).

However, our study does not present a very strong argument for this hypothesis (because the correlation was only marginally significant), which also suggests the possibility that the sources of preferences for BMI are not conscious.

Conclusions In stable COPD with neutrophilic bronchitis, add-on azithromycin therapy showed a trend to reduced severe exacerbations sputum neutrophils, CXCL8 levels and bacterial load.

A significant trend was presented for age, waist circumference, hip circumference, body weight, diastolic blood pressure, HDL-C, TG, Non-HDL-C, PBG, FINS, HOMA-IR, HOMA-β, and the proportion of patients with optimal levels of LDL-C and non-HDL-C among all groups (all P <0.05).

A remarkable and highly significant correlation was detected between TNF-α and IL-6 and IL-8, as expected from their direct connection with canonical pro-inflammatory signaling pathways (i.e.

Genetic differentiation between the five MLLs was strong, with a highly significant F st ranging from 0.262 to 0.694 ( Table S2 ).

Conclusion We report an increasing trend in the number of SE, mainly among MSM, and rising trends in high-risk behaviours and unprotected sexual intercourses among MSM.

Low numbers in each group also precluded a formal statistical analysis of the relationship between RF/ISG induction and tissue-specific viral load, although there was a clear trend towards upregulation coincident with high levels of CA-RNA in different LT.

A highly significant correlation was found, suggesting a minor role of M protein in inducing cross immunity against H3N2v strains.

Differences between the experimental groups were evaluated by the students t-test and considered statistically significant (*) or highly significant (**), when the probability value ( P ) was <0.05 or <0.01, respectively.