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Worldwide, 44 low ageing areas which were distributed mainly in Africa (26 areas) and Asia (15 areas) experienced a decreasing trend of ageing rates.

There was a significant trend for HRs for all-cause mortality according to the interaction terms for RRF and age group (RRF*age [≤59] vs.

Since an increasing trend in MetS prevalence was found in other regions, Indonesia might be affected simultaneously, however, little is known regarding the MetS epidemiology in this multiethnic group country.

Elderly age (above 50 years) showed a highly significant correlation for high blood sugar and high blood pressure across all three categories.

Altogether, this highlights a worrying trend of ineffective current WTS policy, with current efforts towards curbing WTS use being unsuccessful in deterring students.

Although, 80% of individuals continued working in the year following an episode due to malignant neoplasm, women showed a trend towards exiting the labor market because of partial retirement [SHR = 8.4(1.5–45.5)] and permanent disability [SHR = 5.8(1.5–22.9)] compared to non-malignant pathologies.

Physical activity can protect against oxidative stress and inflammation, the coefficient for the interaction between low physical activity and childhood disadvantage indicated a negative trend though this was not significant nor was the interaction between childhood disadvantage and obesity.

Background Ethiopia had an increasing trend of morbidity and mortality due to road traffic injury.

Also, when BMI trajectory analysis applied to same population of this study, there was no changeable patterns of BMI and clearly significant effects for T2DM risk (not shown result).

Due to the small sample size and exploratory nature of the study, p -values of 0.05–0.10 were also reported, in order to ensure that important potential points of consideration approaching significance were not overlooked.

Even though their association with poor asthma control was almost significant with females being more likely to have poorer control than males, the association with higher BMI was not statistically significant; indeed, we had almost the same number of female patients being of normal weight or overweight/obese.

The association between graduate studies and poor asthma control was barely significant in the bivariate analysis of this study, even though almost 68% of patients who had graduate or postgraduate degrees, had poor asthma control as defined by the ACT.

There were marginally insignificant differences in gender and inflammation among the three groups.

Evidence also shows that overweight and obesity is an increasing trend in Bangladesh.

Challenges faced in seeking treatment by patients were slightly significant to perceptions of access to treatment.

What’s more, the 95% CI of living with a spouse and child was (1.00, 1.32) which was so close to 1.00, meaning that such influence may be significant once we expand our sample size.

A decreasing trend of depressive symptoms was related to decreasing helplessness/pessimism.

Moreover, this research highlights a worrying trend whereby the existing workforce experiences long working hours and high levels of absenteeism, which could attract legal culpability.

Moreover, e-cigarette use was significantly associated with marijuana use (OR:4.17, 95% CI: 2.6–6.7) and alcohol use (OR: 5.08, 95% CI: 2.9–9.0), and approached significance with illicit drug use (OR: 1.68, 95% CI: 1.0–2.9).

Conclusion A decreasing trend of HIV prevalence was showed during among MSM from 2013 to 2017 in Chongqing.

Despite the continuous decrease in the overall HIV incidence worldwide, an increasing trend of infection has been gradually identified among the MSM group [ 4 ].

This proportion changed little, and a significant trend was not found from 2013 to 2017 ( P for trend: 0.64 and 0.10).

For instance, a study in the UK has shown that generalized trust was the only social capital variable that has a positive and highly significant association with psychological health overtime [ 11 ].

The only difference on the CEBQ between the intervention and control groups which came close to significance was for Emotional over-eating.

However, the 2-points difference on average (in favour of carers) was only marginally significant at the 10% level.