In a phase III study, infusion with autologous tumor cell–bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine after surgical resection in stage II and III colon cancer patients didn’t show statistically significant differences in clinical outcomes compared with the arm under surgical resection alone, though there was a slight trend in PFS and OS ( 72 ).
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.
Only a slight trend suggested that the highly educated engaged more in recreational and household activities than those with primary education.
However, in female rats, there was a slight trend of density enhancement in the LFRU group compared to the CON group, while the HFRU group remained suppressed.
There was only a slight trend upward in the number of ultrasound-guided nerve blocks completed before and after the study, suggesting that despite education, there was minimal incorporation of the procedure into clinical practice.
Finally, our results show a slight trend towards decreased confidence in the professionalism of nursing staff.
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.
Although there was a slight trend for patients with EPC to have discharge to home, statistical significance was not reached, and there was no difference between other discharge dispositions.
For PCI intervention, the male/female split showed a slight trend towards more females in the top 5% costs for emergency interventions, but no trend in total cost groups.
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 ].
Untreated wounds showed a slight trend of faster healing, but showed significant signs of wound contraction which points towards wound healing by contraction but not by epithelialization.
(2022) had observed that being heterosexual and having a partner predicted greater satisfaction with sexual life during the pandemic, in our study we only observed a slight trend in the same direction, but it is not statistically significant.
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.
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 of lower molecular weight and number of heavy atoms is also present with the top 10 scorers pointing to lower molecular weights and a larger number of hydrogen atoms relative to heavy atoms present for these ligands.
In contrast to granulocytes, there was no consistent effect of hyperoxia across multiple analyzes in PBMCs, except for a slight trend in the utilization of lipid synthesis indicated by the NADPH-providing oxidative PPP and the acetyl-CoA loss.
We found a slight trend for higher total and right and left hemisphere ICM in the FHR group ( Table 1 , Figure 3 ).
Regarding smoking status, most participants (73.6%) reported not actively smoking, and there was a slight trend towards a higher percentage of active smokers in Group 1 compared to Group 2.
As a slight trend, more elution of monomers in the ethanol/water mixture than in ethanol can be observed over almost all material/elution media combinations with exception of TEGDMA from the 3D printing composite and Bis-EMA from the self-curing composite.
Demographics and clinical characteristics were similar between treatment groups except for a slight trend toward decreased tibialis anterior muscle strength in the treatment group ( Table 1 ).
Similar trajectories and disease symptoms were observed for XBB.1.5 MA infected mice, achieving a peak mean weight loss of 25 %, with a slight trend towards weight gain noted at 7-dpi ( Fig. 1 A, green line with circles) .
When analyzing age in the present study, there was a slight trend in which older patients (group aged 13–14 years) provided higher scores in most dimensions of OHRQoL in the CPQ-Esp 11–14 questionnaire than the younger patients did; however, this did not obtain statistical significance.
However, in T4, grassland had a slight trend of developing against fragmentation mainly caused by increment of patch size and reduction of isolation compared to T3.
Similarly, our study showed a slight trend toward PFS benefit for patients receiving combination therapy as first-line treatment (HR = 0.84, 95% CI: 0.54–1.30).
We generally observed a slight trend of lower diversity in young trees vs. old trees (this was easily observable at the sites RR, MCR, and CC).