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An increasing trend in the number of primary PCI was observed over time.

An overall lack of references, disclosures, currency, and author credits are a worrying trend among the top websites included in this study.

Differences were considered to be significant when the P value was >0.05 and highly significant when the P value was >0.01.

Expectant management can be practiced in patients with unruptured gestation and a decreasing trend of beta-hCG [ 13 ].

The proportion of patients admitted to the EDOU showed a positive trend from 49% in 2013 to 75% in 2014 (70%).

We observed a significant trend of abuse of other illicit substances concurrently including cocaine (12; 11.5%), cannabinoids (10; 9.6%), and heroin (5; 4.8%).

Responses of ‘very good’ and ‘good’ were categorized as ‘good,’ and, similarly, responses of ‘strongly agree’ and ‘agree’ were categorized as ‘agreed.’ Responses or ‘very poor’ and ‘poor’ were categorized as ‘poor,’ and responses of ‘strongly disagree’ and ‘disagree’ were categorized as ‘disagree.’ A two-sided p-value of 0.05 was considered significant while a p-value of 0.01 was considered highly significant.

Recently, there is an increasing trend in reports of diphtheria throughout the world and specifically from developing countries.

Interestingly, in two scenarios where patients met the inclusion criteria, the paramedics’ performance showed a negative trend after the education delivery.

Regarding the morbidity site, intestinal toxicity was present in 38% of the patients, while 46% of the 37 patients presented irritable bowel as comorbidity; although in the multivariate analysis, no statistical significance was observed between the association of the irritable bowel and chronic toxicity, it showed a trend.

Mortality in Q4 showed an increasing trend compared with that in other quartiles, but there was no statistical significance.

Therefore, the difference in blood total cholesterol levels as observed in the two time periods is highly significant as shown in Table 3 and Figure 3 .

This group showed a trend toward a shorter time to therapy for stage III non-small cell lung cancer [ 11 ].

This article is available from https://www.cureus.com/articles/26279-conversion-from-off-to-on-pump-coronary-artery-bypass-grafting-is-it-avoidable Background With the emergence of new technologies to stabilize the heart off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (OPCAB), there is an increasing trend that is being observed throughout the world.

There was a clear trend towards a perception of lower risk with the increase in training levels as shown in Figure 2 .

Our results clearly reveal the controversy in the literature; however, there is, indeed, a strong trend toward supporting the microsurgical retreatment.

While going through various clinical trials done by different researches in various setting it was observed that the impact of exercise on slowing AD progression is quite significant.

Surprisingly, the United Kingdom has a positive trend in the mortality rate of 20.93% between 1990 and 2017.

The estimated age-standardized average incidence rates of AEMT were 309 [95% uncertainty interval (UI), 270 to 351], 340 (298 to 384), 401 (348 to 458), and 439 (376 to 505) per 100,000 population across the world in 1990, 2000, 2010, and 2017, respectively, showing an increasing trend in the new occurrence of adverse events.

Other factors that showed a trend toward increasing the odds of following up included the ED physician being a clinic physician and having a recent clinic visit prior to the ED encounter; however, neither of these reached statistical significance.

Interestingly, patients that underwent SCS had a strong trend towards amputation-free salvage of the affected limbs compared to those that were treated with conservative treatment, with many patients having clinical improvement in the ischemic ulcers and improvement from ischemic rest pain to mild claudication [ 25 , 27 - 29 ].

There has been an increasing trend in pacemakers in recent years [ 26 ].

Though the impact of early PTS may be significant, they remain largely theoretical, contributing to the debate around seizure prophylaxis.

There is no guidance as to what other serologic tests to order and when, so there may be significant variation in the extent of the evaluation.

A relatively new negative attitude towards seniors is a worrying trend.