The phrase "albeit borderline" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to introduce a concession or qualification, indicating that something is true to a certain extent but may not fully meet the criteria.
Example: "The proposal was innovative, albeit borderline impractical for our current resources."
Alternatives: "though somewhat" or "even if marginally".
Similar estimates were observed when insulin sensitivity was assessed as Matsuda index, albeit borderline significant, only.
Consistent with their notion findings, association between FGF23 and TmP/GFR was significant, albeit borderline, among patients with CKD in the current study population (Table 4).
There was evidence that carrier status for MTRR Ser175Leu is associated with a poorer prognosis (HR=1.14; 95% CI: 0.92 1.41) albeit borderline significance in all cancers but significant in NSCLC (HR=1.36; 95% CI: 1.06 1.75).
Secondly, because SIF still retains some additional, albeit borderline, associations after glycemic exposure adjustment, further investigation may permit potential new pathways to complications to be identified and quantified.
Albeit only borderline statistically significant, the changes in subtype of atherosclerosis were confirmed by IVUS in our reduced sample size of patients completing follow-up examinations with CAG and IVUS.
Energy adjusted MUFA and proliferation were associated, albeit with borderline significance.
We also saw enrichment for the GO term angiogenesis in the same cluster, albeit of borderline significance.
Furthermore, the effects in persons who were familiar with Healthy Ageing pointed in the same direction (3.0-8.6 3.0-8.6it of borderline significance.
An inverse association was also observed, albeit of borderline statistical significance, among those drinking more than two glasses per week of white wine (OR 0.7, 95% CI 0.4 1.0) or strong beer (OR 0.6, 95% CI 0.4 1.0).
Several potentially important trends, albeit of borderline statistical significance, were also observed in that those medical school using the UKCAT as a threshold score were more likely to admit students from state or non-grammar schools and from low socioeconomic backgrounds than were medical schools that used UKCAT in borderline cases (table 12).
In contrast to the estimates for the threshold level for solid cancer data, the best estimate for the threshold level in the leukemia data is significantly different from zero even when allowance is made for a possible quadratic term in the dose response, albeit at borderline levels of statistical significance (p = 0.04).
