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A previous study in the ELSA cohort observed low levels of physical activity among older adults and an overall trend for increasing levels of inactivity and a reduction in vigorous activity with age [ 43 ].

Despite this high value, lead concentration in bones from the same species from other coastal areas in southwestern Mexico showed a decreasing trend up to 10 times lower from 1999 to 2015 [ 19 , 76 , 77 ].

This quite significant overshooting can be attributed to the smaller hydrated ionic radius of Pb, and thus the higher affinity.

Our results showed a decreasing trend of the exposure duration of reported pneumoconiosis and also the silicosis cases, which implies that the risk of dust is becoming more and more serious.

The overall ROM values showed a trend toward an improvement after the tailored protocol ( Table 2 ).

There is an increasing trend of unhealthy eating among adolescents worldwide, which is contributing to an increase in the incidence of obesity [ 7 ] and the development of chronic diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease [ 10 , 11 ].

However, for these very-high-anxious-arousal participants, the slope of the prediction line from exposure to PTS symptoms is 0.62 and highly significant.

Affected by topography, the annual precipitation shows an overall trend that decreases from southeast to northwest with a high variability across seasons and locations.

A decreasing trend was also observed in the depression levels, although statistically insignificant ( Table 2 ).

Despite the overall weekly leisure activity scores and physical activity levels were not significantly changed among the participants, an increasing trend was observed in the frequency of moderate-intensity exercises over the three time points (from 1.38 ± 2.32 to 1.53 ± 2.82 then 1.55 ± 2.38 times per week).

Longer irrigation time (35 years and 22 years) resulted in a decreasing trend of As, Cd, Hg, Pb and Zn in lower part of soil profiles (>540 cm) compared with that with 13-years’ irrigation years.

The mean pH values display an increasing trend at topsoil (0–200 cm) and a decreasing trend on the soil profile below 200 cm.

The difference between respondents aged 18–19 and 20–24 was of borderline significance, with those aged 18-19 reporting a greater number of channels.

Estimates were considered marginally significant if they met the alpha criteria of 0.05 but were no longer significant after Bonferroni correction.

Although the p-value is marginally significant (0.089), the oldest-old living in cities are more likely to report good health than those living in rural areas.

Partial correlations checking for childhood abuse were generally only slightly lower ( r = 0.07 to 0.09, p < 0.05 to 0.01), and the pattern of significance was the same, except for some relationships that were already weakly significant (also displayed in Table 3 ).

In the present study, PA also showed a trend of decreasing with age.

UCC differences by housing type had borderline significance.

However, the associations between SES and health were highly significant even during adolescence, indicating that the effect of the social background may diminish but not disappear during adolescence.

However, an increasing trend was found in the HST and LAT groups.

A decreasing trend from the exhalation zone to the inhalation zone can be seen for h I/ h o < 1 in the absence of any desks.

There was a clear trend of particles being located near the outlet for ACH increasing from 3 to 5, while, from 5 to 7, the same conclusion could not be drawn.

A marginally significant difference was found for income.

All patients evaluated together show highly significant improvement in pain intensity assessed by the VAS ( Figure 1 ).

According to Figure 1 , the total number of publications on algal-bacterial symbiosis in wastewater treatment from 1998 to 2017 had shown an increasing trend, with slight fluctuations in individual years.