“a slight trend”

This means that there was a slight trend to overcorrection with the trifocal IOL and a trend to undercorrection with the hybrid IOL.

A slight trend in the increase of Snail expression correlated with the complexity of the fistula, and E-cadherin was significantly lowered in the complex fistula group.

There was a slight trend towards more contaminated (III) but fewer dirty wounds (IV) in colorectal surgery during COVID-19 in a retrospective multicenter analysis [ 26 ].

In this context, we found only a slight trend for better predictability in multimodal than unimodal models, higher prediction accuracies for SC and GMV than RSFC and for global cognition compared to specific cognitive profiles.

In the first place, although there was a slight trend of higher trust and competence evaluation for the standard German-speaking compared to the dialect-speaking robot for all participants, the difference was not statistically significant.

Finally, our results show a slight trend towards decreased confidence in the professionalism of nursing staff.

Only a slight trend suggested that the highly educated engaged more in recreational and household activities than those with primary education.

Moving down the families of VH germlines, from IGHV1–2 to IGHV8-51-1, a slight trend is visible where the total number of positive and negative charges decreases (Suppl.

While there was a slight trend towards a higher percentage of alive (YFP+) spores per larvae in rac2 −/− versus rac2 +/+ larvae, this difference was not statistically significant, suggesting that Rac2 is not required for spore killing ( Fig. 3C ).

At 120°/s we can observe a slight trend in favor of HUB for the peak torque and the extensor strength.

21 Just one-third of the sites were rated to be of good quality, with a slight trend toward improvement compared to 10 years ago.

The patterns are very similar for overall relative glycosylation, sialyation, and high mannose species, with a slight trend of reduced fucosylation at the pH 7.3 condition (59.10% ± 2.34% versus 64.40% ± 3.75%).

In fact, there was a slight trend towards higher risk with larger particle sizes (although confidence intervals were overlapping), which is in conflict with evidence suggesting that smaller UFPs may be more toxic ( Han et al., 2023 ).

The θ d5 values are similar and independent of the polymer composition, with a slight trend of decreasing θ d5 with higher PI x content and range from 322 to 334 °C.

Looking at the individual lesion TBRs, we observed a slight trend towards higher TBRs in score comb 2 and 3 compared to score comb 1.

The distribution of CI ( Figure 3 B4 ) spanned both negative and positive values, with a slight trend of being centred around zero.

Likewise, the A3’SS and A5’SS events exhibit a slight trend towards inclusion, consistent with the high frequency of RIs (Fig. 3B ).

There was no major change in the proportion of patients treated with GA over the period of inclusion in the study, although a slight trend towards a decrease in GA use was observed ( Figure S1 ).

However, a slight trend suggestive of reduced Gfap -upregulation at 3 dpi was observed in Müller cells from ischemic retinas treated with FH variants compared to those treated with EGFP alone, an effect that diminished at 14 dpi (Fig. 2 E).

4 ng/mL), but our cohort’s PJI group also showed a slight trend towards lower suPAR concentrations in blood plasma than the PJI-negative patients.

There is a noted shift in gender ratios from more females in initial records to a slight trend favoring males in the final records, a choice influenced by both breeders and owners.

However, even in these cells, the Sdc-1-OV clones showed a slight trend towards the induction of faster aggregation.

Meanwhile, there is a slight trend of expansion in the suitable area, particularly under SSP370 and SSP585.

Despite the small number of participants, in which the majority consisted of males, a particularly interesting finding of our study was that PLWH on cART-containing INSTI regimens exhibited a slight trend toward lower concentrations of LBP in peripheral plasma.

Between 2004 and 2019, there was no substantial inequality in smoking prevalence by remoteness, a relatively stable inequality by education, but a slight trend for increasing absolute and relative inequalities by area-level disadvantage (for the middle disadvantage subgroup, a prevalence difference of 4.3 percentage points [95% CI: 1.3–7.4] in 2004 to 8.0 percentage points [95% CI: 5.5–10.5] in 2019, and a prevalence ratio of 1.2 [95% CI: 1.0–1.4] in 2004 to 1.9 [95% CI: 1.4–2.3] in 2019; for the most disadvantaged subgroup, a prevalence difference of 7.5 percentage points [95% CI: 3.9–11.2] in 2004 to 16.8 percentage points [95% CI: 12.7–20.8] in 2019, and a prevalence ratio of 1.4 [95% CI: 1.2–1.7] in 2004 to 2.8 [95% CI: 2.1–3.5] in 2019).