“a slight trend”

There was an increase in the frequency of bowel movements, with a slight trend towards softer stools due to yacon syrup [ 22 ].

If anything, we observed a slight trend toward downregulated ROS responses in the neutrophils of our cohort of FMF patients, again arguing to a counter-regulatory tolerance program.

Despite a slight trend towards lower catheter adherent bacterial counts in Sbp-negative mutants derived from S . epidermidis 1457-M10 and 1585, the observed differences compared to their Sbp producing parent strains did not reach statistical significance.

Specifically, there was no significant difference in the change in mean CoQ10 levels between randomization groups ( P = 0.13), though there appears to have been a slight trend toward decreases in the statin group.

4B ; R = −0.374, P = 0.072, N = 24), indicating a slight trend that throat hair negatively related to seed number per fruit.

The attempted versus achieved SEQ plot demonstrated excellent correlation (R 2 = 0.99, slope = 0.96), with a slight trend toward undercorrection in higher myopic corrections ( Fig. 5E ).

There was a slight trend towards improvement in ChatGPT-4 performance throughout the test, as observed in the logistic regression curve.

6 , 17 The combined estimates from the meta-analysis further reinforce these observations, showing a slight trend toward lower retention rates for air abrasion, though not reaching statistical significance.

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 [ 29 ].

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.

In the BLM model, IF staining of TGFBi from liver sections of vehicle‐treated mice showed a slight trend towards higher TGFBi signal in Stab1 −/− mice compared to WT and Stab2 −/− mice.

Results 3.1 Anaesthetic effects Samples from naïve animals (n = 5) which received no treatment during 7 hours of urethane anaesthesia, showed a slight trend for increased levels of cytokines, but the increases were not statistically significant for IL1α, IL1β, IL2, IL4, IL6, IL10, GM-CSF, IFNγ, or TNFα compared with samples taken from rats immediately after administration of anaesthetic (n = 10; P > 0.05, Mann Whitney) see Table 1 .

Nonetheless, there was a slight trend indicating increased stress levels and a greater burden of URTIs correlate among young adult women.

In the present study, there is an improvement in BCVA by at least 1 line detected as early as 6 months after the crosslinking procedure and this improvement is still evident after 1 year although associated with a slight trend towards a myopic shift.

Replotting by median trend values for CD69 signalling revealed a slight trend of resistance with increasing CD69 in Group 3 CD4 and CD8 TCM and TEM ( Figure 4 (B)).

The strength of this deactivation did not correlate with the strength of the Stroop effect, though there was a slight trend.

When analyzing α-SMA expression in the gastric mucosa, a slight trend was detected towards an increase in the immunopositive region of α-SMA—5.28% of the total area of the mucosa in the space flight group compared to 4.87% in the control group ( Table 1 ).

OspB was associated with significantly increased cell proliferation over 24–72 hrs following plating of the cells, with a slight trend apparent as early as 12 hrs, and this increase depended on IQGAP1 ( Fig 3C ).

A slight trend toward more negative La/Sm values as well as enriched La/Yb values occurs in our data.

The survival time showed a slight trend towards superiority of S+CT+RT over CT+RT or S+CT, although these differences were not statistically significant because of the small sample ( P =0.73) ( Figure 1D ).

We found no evidence for this: Although there was a slight trend for greater heritability for persistent difficulties, there were no significant differences in the heritability and environmentality estimates for each of these categories.

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.

Discussion Principal Findings In this population-based analysis of HS surgical care in Canada, there was a slight trend towards increasing number of claims for HS surgery per 100,000 population over the 10-year study period, while the number of providers per 100,000 population decreased, particularly in general surgery.

There was a slight trend towards a higher MxA mRNA level in clinically stabilized NAb negative patients, but the mean MxA mRNA level did not significantly differ in patients irrespective of relapse status ( Fig 4 ).

The conditional weighted residual errors (CWRES) were randomly distributed around zero without obvious trends over population predictions, but with a slight trend over time between 6 and 8 h after the last drug intake.