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There was a nonsignificant trend towards improved survival for patients younger than 60, with Karnofsky performance status of 70+ and a controlled primary non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) [ 4 ].

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

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

An increasing trend of sarcopenia was observed in older patients; almost half of the patients older than 85 were sarcopenic (48%).

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

Nowadays, there is an increasing trend toward the evaluation of the quality of life for MS patients and their caregivers.

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 .

In addition, a decreasing trend of invasive therapy was observed in both younger and older subgroups.

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

However, countries across the different regions, such as Ukraine [55.41% (37.44 to 73.37), Australia [24.02% (6.24 to 41.79), Sweden [14.49% (−3.46 to 32.44)], Japan [13.91% (−4.58 to 32.4)], United Kingdom [12.34% (−0.28 to 24.96)], and the US [10.14% (−5.92 to 26.2)] demonstrated an increasing trend in DALY between 1990 and 2017 (Table 2 and Figure 1 ).

The global percentage of change in DALY showed a negative trend of −26.06 % (−41.52 to −10.59) across all WHO regions between 1990 and 2017.

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 ].

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

A p-value of less than 0.05 was considered to show a significant difference, while a p-value of less than 0.01 was considered highly significant.

There is an increasing trend for doctors who have been forced to practice defensive medicine [ 10 ].

noted a decreasing trend of CT infections among incarcerated female juveniles since the implementation of a CT screening program (CLaSP) in California [ 9 ].

Pulmonary function testing may be significant for a decrease in forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) and diffusion capacity for carbon monoxide (DLCO) [ 4 ].

After stratification by site treated, patients who received treatment to the brain showed a difference in survival that was marginally significant in favor of concurrent/adjuvant IT (log rank: 0.0749) (Figure 9 ).

The extubation failure group had higher MCV mean than the extubation success group with extremely significant p-value.

This observation must be tempered by the fact that this association was only marginally significant when correcting for the known confounding factors of population size and median age.

Conclusions Increased muscular asymmetry in the sagittal plane and lateral plane showed a trend toward increased levels of low back pain; however, there is a weak correlation.

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Of all the articles reviewed, 49.4% (620/1255) were open access, and the percentage of articles that were open access showed a negative trend over time.

In addition, the availability of source data showed a positive trend from 2016 to 2018 as demonstrated in Figure 2 .