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The incidence of mumps in 2018 peaked from April to June but showed a decreasing trend after June due to the reduction of students’ contact during the summer vacation.

Sixteen occupations associated with the lowest ratio of heavy drinkers demonstrated a trend with duration of employment, the majority ( n = 11) showing a positive trend; i.e. greater time employed in these occupations was associated with increasing rates of lower heavy drinking (Table S 3 ).

Results Spatiotemporal trends in anxiety Anxiety in China fluctuated, but it followed an increasing trend overall.

Each year there is an increasing trend toward obesity in Indonesia [ 31 ].

Although coverage targets for the original provinces should be consistent with the accumulation of two new provinces, the mean coverage shows a decreasing trend.

Despite minor fluctuations, the proportion of both urban and rural Thais who engaged in the recommended level of MVPA showed an increasing trend (Table 1 ).

Those with a skin type less likely to burn (Fitzpatrick scale type 4 or 5) showed a trend towards fewer sun safety practices compared to those with type 1 or 2 skin, however this did not reach statistical significance.

After adjustment, having children was of borderline significance and most of the employment categories were no longer significant.

It is worth noting that for a household income between 2 and 5 minimum wages, the association between income and U5MR is weakly significant ( p -value: 0.051, CI: − 21.66; 0.03 and adj.

The publishing date of the studies displays a clear trend.

The crude analysis in model 1 indicated that the odds of seeking medical treatment for urban elderly persons is 3 times higher than their rural counterparts and this difference is highly significant (at 99% confidence level).

In most counties, a positive trend in the number of suicides recorded over time is evident.

This could explain the finding that there is an increasing trend in the prevalence of MetS between 2011 and 2015 based on definitions of IDF criteria that required abdominal obesity as an essential criterion.

First, countries in both categories (low/medium and high/very high HDI level) have experienced a decreasing trend of YLL, YLD and DALY over the study period, except a quite small increase in YLD rate for the countries with low/medium HDI level.

In urban China, mortality rates for the 65–84 age groups clearly showed a decreasing trend, which then rose upward; there were fluctuations in the 55–64 age groups without an obvious trend; and mortality in the 20–54 age groups increased gradually over the 1989–2018 period.

The results of our study show an overall trend of cervical cancer mortality rates initially decreasing, and then increasing over the 30-year period between 1989 and 2018.

They found that living > 5 km away from a facility is associated with 62% higher neonatal mortality based on 4 studies, and 57% higher under-5 mortality based on 9 studies; both effects were deemed highly significant.

Children in the middle age group (11–13 years) are 9 min more physically active (barely significant), and children in the oldest age group (14–17 years) are 18 min more physically active than children in the youngest age group (6–10 years).

However, after the year 2000, we observed an increasing trend for DPT and Measles vaccinations.

There was a marginally significant interaction between undocumented students and campus belonging relative to the students with lawfully present immigrant parents (Model 2; OR = 1.08, 0.99–1.17 95%CI).

There was a positive trend in the association between schooling and odds of TB cure, especially in the case of secondary schooling, with 1.72 odds of cure (95% CI 1.30–2.29) compared to illiterate individuals.

For both groups, odds ratios for contrasts between 2014 and 2019 were in the direction of continued lowering of the odds of ever smoking, though were of borderline significance for the whole sample only.

greater tolerance) of others’ smoking over time, with contrasts of 2007 and 2008 with 2014 marginally significant, and further decline evident from 2014 to 2019, although smaller and not significant for children of smokers.

Generally, in each output, the Z-score is high and positive with a highly significant p -value which showed 99% confidence for clustering of undernutrition across regions in Ethiopia (Fig. 2 A-D).

Another study, on the other hand, reported that there was a decreasing trend of perceived drug risk in conjunction with the increasing usage of drugs [ 58 ].