“of borderline significance”

which concluded that relationship with pain severity was of borderline significance for bone cysts [ 23 ].

Correlations were significant in men only with age and inversely with fasting triglycerides and of borderline significance with fT3.

A variant of borderline significance has been reported in the putative oncogene AURKA (earlier known as STK15 ) ( Dicioccio et al , 2004 ).

A change over time of borderline significance was found only in the PP population for actin‐NT.

An inverse association of borderline significance became apparent between flavanones and pancreatic cancer risk after restricting the analysis to these cases.

A second component was of borderline significance with an Eigenvalue of 1.00 and mainly represented the question on contraception (loading of 0.99), in keeping with the lower item-rest correlation (see Table 2 ).

Whereas weak negative interactions were noted between high triglycerides and hypertension and between low HDL cholesterol and hypertension, these were of borderline significance.

Although there were trends to poorer outcome for tumors with high expression of STAT1, this was only of borderline significance.

The exposure-response function for 19 sites did not deviate significantly from linearity, while a deviation of borderline significance was found for pancreas cancer.

Stage 1 showed a slightly increased HR (1.13) of borderline significance and the HR increased further in stage 2 (1.41).

The authors again reported loss of lung density in both groups with a difference of borderline significance in favor of the treatment group over the entire treatment period in one of four analysis methods.

Variables found to be significant or of borderline significance were integrated into the logistic regression analysis if the relationship exceeded a 10% threshold.

The AUFA pattern showed a positive association of borderline significance, whereas the Vitamins and fibre pattern was nonsignificantly but inversely associated with NPC.

In addition, our findings suggest that for both sexes combined, the simultaneous presence of elevated levels of both allergen-specific IgE and total IgE may be associated with a lower risk of glioblastoma and glioma than are negative levels for both types of IgE; however, it should be noted that these associations are only of borderline significance.

Paracetamol use in the past month was reported by 29%, and associations of borderline significance were seen for eczema (adjusted OR (95% CI) = 8.51 (1.68 to 43.19) for 1–3 tablets and 2.19 (0.36 to 13.38) for ≥4 tablets, compared to no tablets in the past month; overall p = 0.055) and for ‘any allergic condition’ (adjusted OR (95% CI) = 2.73 (1.22 to 6.11) for 1–3 tablets and 1.35 (0.67 to 2.70) for ≥4 tablets compared to 0 in the past month; overall p = 0.071).

This suggests sustained benefits from inpatient education, although the 180-day model was of borderline significance.

[ 23 ] demonstrated that heterozygous mutations predispose to CRC later in life, but the effect was small and of borderline significance.

We did not include in the multivariable analysis variables which were highly correlated such as age at anti-asthma maintenance treatment start, hospital admissions for asthma during the past year, oral steroids for asthma exacerbations, and parents with workdays lost; we included instead parental smoking, which was of borderline significance at the univariate analysis.

Patients had no statistically significant difference in BMI, total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol and triglycerides, and in the incidence of cigarette smoking, whereas the difference in the HDL cholesterol level was of borderline significance.

Results showed that the effect of telmisartan on the primary outcome was of borderline significance, probably because of an unexpectedly lower number of outcome events [5] .

Associations of colon and rectal cancers with most of these covariates, such as age, education, household income, family history of CRC, tea consumption, cigarette smoking, intake of fruits and vegetables, were statistically significant or of borderline significance in this study (data not shown).

P values of < 0.05 were considered significant and P values between 0.05 and 0.099 considered to be of borderline significance.

Women appear to gain twice as much benefit from an endovascular strategy or EVAR versus open repair than men, although the pooled effect was of borderline significance.

On the other hand, small changes in estimates of variables which are not strong predictors of nonresponse and/or outcome could still result in change in conclusions when they are of borderline significance with wide CIs.

This observation was of borderline significance and the cause was unknown.