“at the brink of significance”

Atrial fibrillation was at the brink of significance ( p = 0.055). 3.3.

It must be noted that, the herein found higher circulating level of NK cells just reached statistical significance (p = 0.04), and hovered at the brink of significance ( p = 0.06) after correction for smoking.

Additionally, posterior LT was slightly thinner in the MM than in the control group, which was at the brink of significance (Bonferroni post hoc test, P = .064, Table 2 ).

However, sensitivity analyses showed that results hovered at the brink of significance when excluding single studies, warranting caution in generalizing these findings to all patient groups.