“a weak trend”

We found that the levels of sPECAM-1 and sP-selection were significantly decreased in ASD adults compared with controls [ 9 , 10 ], while sVCAM-1 showed a weak trend towards a lower level [ 10 ].

Results Linear regression for patients with type 1 diabetes revealed a weak trend towards higher doses of insulin reflecting lower HbA 1c values.

When comparing the two syndrome clusters in relation to gender using a chi-squared test, a weak trend suggested that women more commonly experienced depression with symptoms related to Spleen Deficiency whereas men's experience of depression was more likely to be related to Liver Qi Stagnation ( χ 2 = 3.98, df = 1, P = 0.046).

Compared to the WFR, the questionnaires had a larger underestimation, larger variance, and a weak trend of decreasing accuracy with increasing intakes.

WTAR scores and age also did not differ significantly (p>0.12; Table 1 ), but there was a weak trend toward higher WTAR and lower age in the ISO group.

The mean (± SD) alcohol lifetime alcohol consumption of the patients was 1038±828 kg, and they smoked a mean (± SD) of 17±13 cigarettes per day, yielding a weak trend towards correlation between individual alcohol and cigarette consumption (r = 0.27; n.s.).

A weak trend in the opposite direction was evident between asset index and TB.

As can be seen, there is a weak trend for neck length to decrease relative to body mass.

A marginal 4-way interaction was present that in post-hoc analyses appeared to be primarily driven by a weak trend for a difference in the amount of interference (neutral vs. incongruent) for the attended auditory task only.

Similarly, COX-2 mRNA was not significantly increased in tumor tissue versus mucosa tissue, which confirms our previous results [ 12 ], although there was a weak trend to increased COX-2 mRNA across tumor progression.

HER-2/neu expression was not changed at any of the tested time points by ICC (Additional file 4 : Figure S4, lower panels) but a weak trend towards increased ERBB2 was seen in the first 8 weeks of estrogen deprivation by qRT-PCR (Figure 3 F).

The social defeat group exhibited a weak trend towards similarly increasing consumption over time, but this effect was not significant (F(3,21) = 2.481, p = 0.089; Figure 1 ), However, the total amount of SCM consumed across conditioning was equivalent between previously defeated and control rats (F(1,14) = 1.023, p = 0.329; Figure 1 inset).

The IQR of the TP peak in the contact phase did not cross zero, however, the significance value was 0.09, indicating a weak trend towards a reduction in the magnitude of contraction in shod with FO compared with barefoot.

A weak trend of increasing fluorescence with decreasing latitude was suggested in the data, but the fluorescence generally showed similar variations within the same area as between north and south.

Intriguingly, there was also a trend for an overall advantage for synaesthetes over controls when the shape was defined by display colour ( Figure 4 implies that this may be due to differences at the middle set sizes, but there is only a weak trend for an interaction, so we are not able to analyse this statistically).

A weak trend towards a flatter slope, with intercepts statistically different ( Fig. 2C ), suggests adipose depots from T1R3 mice are characterized by smaller and slightly more numerous adipocytes, especially in those animals with larger adipose depots.

Variation of Hemodynamic Shear in Embryonic and Fetal Great Vessels with Age and Vascular Size The main finding of the current study is that wall shear stresses and wall shear rates had a weak trend with developmental age and vascular sizes, or no statistically significant trends at all; this is unlike centerline flow velocities, which had strong correlations with developmental age and vascular sizes, and unlike vascular sizes, which had strong correlation with developmental age.

Furthermore, P/P mice showed a weak trend towards the most modest increase in perirenal and epididymal fat depots, but this was far from significant ( p = 0.40 and p = 0.29 respectively for age-by-genotype interaction).

6–9 According to a recent Cochrane review, 10 NASCIS-2 showed a weak trend towards an increase in complications, including wound infection (OR 2.11; 95% CI 0.81 to 5.49) and gastrointestinal haemorrhage (OR 1.48; 95% CI 0.48 to 4.56).

One study examining this polymorphism found no difference in pharmacology between it and wild-type FFA4 and only a weak trend toward an association between the polymorphism and obesity in humans [odds ratio 1.16] ( 22 ).

We observed a weak trend toward increased DBPII IgG antibodies among single positive allele carriers, although this association was not significant in two of the three cross-sectional surveys.

This decrease in activity was primarily observed during haptic S1 processing in left LO with only a weak trend of deactivation for visual S1.

Although our data do show a weak trend into the same direction, variation is too large and effect sizes too small to achieve statistical significance.

A weak trend was evident in calculations of Tajima’s D, and was also suggested by codon-based Z-tests, although these were not significant after Bonferroni correction.

2 E and A), but there was a weak trend for a decrease in ESV (IA: 11.45 μ L vs.