“a slight trend”

In fact, there was a slight trend towards better results in patients who underwent weekend cycles.

Despite a slight trend toward assessment during and posttreatment, critical treatment phases require further investigation, addressing clinical endpoints beyond change in PA.

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.

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.

Tumor volume and neutrophil counts showed no significant association with peptide abundance, although a slight trend toward correlation with CRP levels was observed.

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.

A weak negative correlation was observed at L1 (ρ = −0.09, p = 0.05), indicating a slight trend toward lower ISD values with higher BMI.

Overall, while MBL values vary across studies, there is a slight trend favoring platform-switching implants in terms of bone preservation.

Although there was a slight trend towards higher EDSS values in seropositive patients compared to seronegative patients (5 vs 4), the difference did not reach statistical significance.

Discs treated with HA showed a slight trend of improvement over time.

OIS‐BOLD results for vascular reactivity studies show a slight trend of improved vascular function over time with CPP11G/H treatment (Fig. 2).

13 In our study, only a slight trend was observed and only for internal targets (see the trend lines in Figure 2C and bias values for low and highly methylated sites in Suppl.

Although there was a slight trend of decreased expression of TEC1 in the time course analysis, there was no indication that BCR1 was differentially regulated during detachment and overexpression of ALS3 had only a modest effect on the detachment phenotype.

Despite the lack of statistical significance, osteoanabolic treatment was associated with a better preservation of HGS and a slight trend toward greater mobility recovery.

31 Although this trial attempted to show a 30% risk reduction of warfarin against aspirin, it showed only a slight trend favoring warfarin at about 1.7 years of follow-up.

In both cases, there appeared a slight trend that the lag decreases as temperature increases at the extremely hot level.

Concerning physicochemical data, pH ranged from 3.59 (CA-H) to 4.04 (FG-C) at the 41st day of packaging, with a slight trend to increase as the packaging time progressed.

IHC examination of tumor-bearing lung tissues revealed a slight trend of decreased pERK in Compound A-treated animals ( Fig. 5D ; did not reach statistical significance), but no changes were detected in pAKT or pS6.

Although a slight trend toward lower sufentanil consumption was noted in Group 1, this difference was not statistically significant.

A slight trend toward a higher relative risk of culling in more inbred animals was also found by Sewalem et al.

Only analysis of the centers of gravity of the source localizations show a slight trend to vary with stimulus eccentricity in the expected retinotopic pattern.

This analysis showed a slight trend toward a further reduction in both the total and peak ATP release in four VVRIs compared with three VVRIs; overall, there was no statistically significant difference between three and four VVRIs for any RV16 infection state.

However, a slight trend showed that conversations about pregnancy prevention were more often mentioned by mothers of daughters, whereas online information-seeking was more commonly attributed to sons.

Discussion and Conclusions: We observed a slight trend of better results in pregnancy rates and live birth rates with serum progesterone ≥9 ng/mL.

Furthermore, as the PEGDA molecular weight increases, a slight trend of higher porosity is observed.