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Nonetheless, the consumption of palm oil in Japan was positively correlated with time, which indicates an increasing trend in the consumption of palm oil.

From Figure 3 a, we found that the hospital bed level over the entire southwest China showed an increasing trend year by year, with little change for the first five years, but a noticeable upward trend for the last five years.

With due observance of the limitations of the retrieved studies, a positive trend in outcomes in favor of EAP can still be observed.

In addition, in the population aged 65 y+, an increasing trend of the heatwave-related mortality risk in the low cut-off values (85th to 95th percentiles) was more prominent in urban areas than that in rural areas ( Figure 3 ).

Therefore, SMMI and PSMM both are important to follow during ageing because the results clearly showed a gradual decrease in both indicators, whereby the decrease was highly significant in PSMM.

Results Data are not stationary in mean because they show a positive trend ( Figure 1 ).

However, most have moved from moderately uncoordinated to slightly uncoordinated, with an overall trend to develop well.

This figure shows an increasing trend in the number of communications during Stage 1, followed by a progressive decline in the proportion of communications during Stages 2 and 3.

Nevertheless, seven participants noted a positive trend towards a more differentiated media coverage over time (P7: “I think a lot has happened recently.

DemFLE showed a decreasing trend with increasing age, which was parallel to the decreasing trend of LE [ 25 ].

There was some evidence (marginal significance) for an increase in social interactions with unacquainted people at the intervention parks from pre-test to follow-up, with the difference in mean group change from T1 to T3 greater at intervention parks than comparison parks (Ix: x = 0.39, SD 0.9; C: x = −1.2, SD 0.6, p = 0.05). 3.2.

Although there was no significant association between the number of beds and LE and HLE, a negative trend for acute care beds and health outcomes was observed; that is, for males, curative (acute) care beds per 1000 residents were negatively correlated with LE and HLE.

Generally, an increasing trend in food supplement use among children and adolescents has been observed [ 57 ], that are given mainly to prevent or treat illnesses [ 58 ].

Over the last few decades, the prevalence of smoking has decreased, while an increasing trend in overweight and obesity at a younger age has been observed across many countries and regions [ 24 ].

Similarly, indirect effect was found to be significant from external control to stress reduction through (negative) active coping ( b = −0.81, 95% BCCI [−1.45, −0.43]), while the indirect effect from external control to stress reduction through avoidant coping was marginally significant ( b = −0.39, 90% BCCI [−0.79, −0.05]).

Notwithstanding, there is also a notable trend in the deceleration of globalization and an increase in protectionism [ 74 ], which raises barriers to collaboration in big data analytics for disease prevention.

A high value of Kendall’s tau suggests a strong trend.

Such a clear trend of age-related variations may contribute to the reduction of sexual dimorphism in the elderly.

From 2009, there was an increasing trend in pediculosis prevalence among the prisoners, which persisted until 2014.

There is an observed trend for the mean scores for all three scales to decrease with a shift from a younger age bracket to an older age bracket.

A study in Malawi on school-going children in the Cooking and Pneumonia sub-study found lower FVC z-scores in children with higher exposure households although this was a small difference with borderline significance (0.22 z-score), but not for any other lung parameters [ 71 ].

Furthermore, since there was only one marginally significant difference between the two sides, the current density–relative power of each frequency band was investigated, but with the use of extended groups and 12 data entries for each parameter (both robotic and physical therapist rehabilitation).

Virtually all evaluations were non-significant (see Table 3 below), except for the peak current density after one week of physical therapy, which was higher (marginal significance) in the case of patients treated by the therapist versus the robotic rehabilitation.

The production of coal, natural gas, and power are all showing an increasing trend.

Exposure to mixtures of pesticides is recognized as an issue of great concern since even though the exposure levels for each individual pesticide may be below thresholds of concerns, the combined effect may be significant [ 48 ]. 3.2.