“a slight trend”

However, there seems to be a slight trend of occurrence of VL in higher altitudes in the present.

However, Thompson et al .[ 1 ] found a slight trend toward a higher incidence of infection if primary repair was delayed longer than 24 h after the initial injury compared with those eyes that received primary repair within 24 h; however, this trend did not reach significance.

Although we observed a slight trend towards higher reactivity in the headless HA+WT group, it was not statistically significant ( Fig 5I ).

A slight trend was observed in that patients with diabetes were more likely to be enrolled into Medicare Part D and were more satisfied with their Medicare Part D enrollment decision than patients without diabetes.

We observe a slight trend of Chimera causing Phoenics to find very large peak areas after conducting more experiments at the advantage of finding still acceptable peak areas at lower solvent amounts earlier on.

19 , 35 Although we did observe an effect on gene expression and Serpine1/pSmad2 protein levels, no significant effect on the percentage of fibrotic/necrotic areas was observed compared to control-injected muscles and only a slight trend of increased fiber size was shown.

There was even a slight trend for improved haemodynamic benefits of LS in patients under β-blockade.

In Ndlavela, there was a slight trend toward contraceptive acceptance by adolescents and young adults when compared to Boane.

From our results, it seems unlikely that we could have missed a difference in severe thrombocytopenia, but we cannot exclude a slight trend of increase in bleeding events missed due to lack of power.

For the secondary outcome, a slight trend toward greater range of motion in the short immobilisation group was spotted.

There was a slight trend toward fewer cells with increasing light exposure at Day 1, but these values were no different than the range of values found among the mock samples, and the trend was not significant ( p = 0.78, ANOVA for difference of the means).

In this regard, we only observed a slight trend of increased Cdkn1a mRNA expression levels in males.

Similarly, there was a slight trend suggesting that there would be more damage in voxels with less GC-concentrated families, as the distribution of direct/indirect damage for heterochromatin voxels was around 34%/66%, while it was 30%/70% for euchromatin.

A slight trend towards lower SLA was found in only one of five species, but δ 13 C values of most species were indeed more positive in deciduous tree crowns.

Generally, as reflected in the figures, we observed a slight trend of PTEs accumulation in females compared to males.

Result: The Osseotite Certain group showed a slight trend toward greater resistance, but there was no diversity among the two implant holder groups ( P 0.05).

Overall, there is a slight trend of decreasing permeability with increasing pH.

In summary, we observed a slight trend toward winner affected males overcoming a weight disadvantage of up to 15%.

Compared to controls, mice pre-treated with FliC displayed a slight trend toward a delayed body weight loss and mortality upon oral infection ( Figures 2A,B ).

At the larger concentrations, there is a slight trend toward lower spreading fractions with increasing current density, which is potentially related to the activation of additional nucleation sites.

Whilst there was a slight trend towards GM preservation in the bexarotene group—consistent with the beneficial effect on BA MRI —this was not statistically significant (+247 mm 3 [CI: −3343, 3838], P = 0.89).

There was a slight trend towards a rise in scores for deep and strategic approach, and fall in those for surface approach over Years 1–5, but in only some cohorts were these statistically significant.

The results showed that across all patients, higher bilirubin levels independently increased the risk of death, with a slight trend of diminishing effect as age increased (HR decreased by 0.3% per year of age), although this did not reach statistical significance.

Again, there is a slight trend toward divergence of the cost-based and charge-based weights.

The median difference was +1dB(A); Quartiles: -3, 7 dB(A); 2.5-97.5 percentiles: -10, 18 dB(A) (n = 2,966) with a slight trend towards larger over-estimations at higher noise levels.