“a slight trend”

There was a slight trend towards more pronounced day-night differences in non-night shift workers, with slightly higher daytime and slightly lower night-time blood pressure values as compared to night shift workers.

This is consistent with a slight trend towards the observed lower R 2 between composite value of the k causal variants and the common SNP allele for increasing k , implying a lower power of detection of synthetic associations with higher RAF.

However, there was a slight trend for higher relative abundance of AOA and AOB three weeks after herbicide addition compared to the no-herbicide soil, except in the 10 × clopyralid treatment.

In addition, 10 of 14 nuclear markers in domestic pigs were detected to have a higher proportion of pairs with significant LD than in wild boars ( Table 4 ), suggesting a slight trend toward increasing LD in nuclear DNA during domestication or breeding, which is consistent with founder effects.

Conversely, there was a slight trend towards increasing choroid plexus volumes, however not reaching significance.

While there appears to be a slight trend, fluorocitrate treatment alone did not significantly affect food intake or body weight change in either group.

Although there was a slight trend toward longer flagellomeres on average in females (144 microns for females, 135 microns for males; averages of first 50 flagellomeres, n = 15 for both males and females), this was not significantly different (ANOVA on the average length of the first 50 flagellomeres, P = 0.07, n = 30).

NMDS ordination of the OTU results demonstrated that, despite a slight trend toward treatment-based clustering at the last sampling time, the total coral-associated microbiome was not significantly affected by EE2 contamination, and was clustered only by time (days 0, 3, 9 and 17, i.e.

Notably, at a treatment concentration of 100 μg/mL, r-hBD3 demonstrated a slight trend toward decreased cell viability; however, this difference was not statistically significant when compared to L-hBD3 and D-hBD3.

HSQC NMR of the recovered lignins suggest a slight trend towards greater ether cleavage with increasing solids loading (Figure ESI-7 a).

Like the wild-type mice, there was a slight trend for increased mCherry expression moving rostral to caudal.

Ignoring technical failures when regarding the combined results (see Figure 1 D), a slight trend may be inferred toward the splenectomy group performing worse than the controls.

We found smoking cancer patients with high expression of SAV1 had a higher OS rate and exhibited a slight trend in the nonsmokers (Fig. 3 F), implying that smoking cancer patients with higher SAV1 appeared to have a better prognosis.

By three-dimensional photograph analysis, only a slight trend toward a decrease in mean (SD) facial volume of − 0.69 (6.44) from Week 0 to Week 12 was observed.

However, we did observe a slight trend toward higher dropout rates among patients with higher NIHSS scores at baseline.

Of note, in the further analysis of the IELD and TELD groups, very high-grade migration showed a slight trend of increased operation time, intraoperative blood loss, and fluoroscopic times compared to high-grade migration, though no significant statistical differences were observed ( P > 0.05).

There was a slight trend that people with hemophilia using the app were more satisfied than caregivers/parents of people with hemophilia who used the app (Figure S2 ).

This study revealed that hospitalizations showed a slight trend from county hospitals to the THCs, but no obvious changes were observed in terms of outpatient care.

For fruit samples, there were no significant ( P >0.05) differences in alpha-diversity, with a slight trend to decrease alpha-diversity after 30 days of fermentation.

The range of spatial dependence showed a slight trend to increase throughout the rice growth period.

Moreover, there is a slight trend of shift toward the Th2‐based response, with most indeterminate IGRA patients exhibiting significant increase in the Th2 cytokine IL‐6 levels and slightly increase of other Th2 cytokines, for example, IL‐10, IL‐4, and IL‐5 (Figure S1b ).

Excluding three outliers (i.e., all-cause CV mortality in Kuwait [ 70 ], out-of-hospital cardiac arrest events in Israel [ 56 ], and acute aortic dissection morbidity in China [ 75 ]), a slight trend of higher risk with increasing deviation of the heat threshold from the mean annual temperature could be observed, yet not with robust statistical evidence, with the coefficient estimated by ordinary least squares linear regression equal to 0.002 ( R 2 = 0.19).

Despite a slight trend to more hemorrhagic clinical events with aspirin therapy in line with what would be expected, all aspirin-related clinical events were non-serious, generally mild, and highly curable.

The expression of FHL2 shRNA had minimal effect on mitochondrial motility in neurons that were not subjected to the glucose shift (with a slight trend toward a decrease in motility).

Nevertheless, despite the similarities, a slight trend in SS-OCTA was observed whereby with increasing TS, an elevated TS was detected compared to SD-OCTA (3 × 3-mm 2 scans: mean difference of 0.03 ± 0.04 mm 2 , 6 × 6-mm 2 scans: 0.08 ± 0.19 mm 2 ).