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Additionally, we observed a clear trend in which more educated individuals were more likely to prefer formal care at home over informal care.

These findings do not support the suggestion that e-cigarettes have the potential to reduce social inequalities in smoking, since i) current evidence does not show a clear trend of higher e-cigarette use in population groups with higher tobacco consumption, and ii) the experience of smokeless tobacco suggests that – even where NCNP use is higher among low SES groups – this does not necessarily replace smoked tobacco use in these groups.

Alcohol Drinking A clear trend of a highly significant increase in alcohol consumption was observed during the period studied, especially the years of economic transition in Poland and other Central and Eastern European countries [ 21 , 28 , 29 ].

A clear trend can be observed in that animals from Kasero have high positive values in PC1 with a relatively narrow range of values among animals.

Breast cancer is a multi-faceted disease with significant heterogeneity and as such, it is not surprising that a clear trend was not observed, therefore, further analysis with stratification by subtype may provide a clearer association.

Finally, statistical analyses revealed a clear trend that polyp size increased at a faster rate in the control group than in the treatment group and for each subgroup (low, moderate and severe).

There is a clear trend of an increasing area with a dhps 540E prevalence exceeding 0.2 (blue dots) from 1990 to 2005.

Over time, a clear trend of decreasing rainfall becomes apparent.

Moreover, heptaminol was transported by OCT1, OCT2, and MATE1, illustrating a clear trend of higher transport activity across different SLC transporters with increasing length of the non-branched carbon chain.

Assessment of 15 NH 4 + reflux and its effect on gross N mineralization rates In live soils the amount of 15 N recovered in different NH 4 + sinks either increased significantly over incubation time (Forest soil: NO 3 − , DON, N fixed ; Grassland soil: NO 3 − , N fixed ) or did not show a clear trend (Grassland soil: DON; Fig. 2 ).

Regarding overall SES risk, there was a clear trend toward a more advanced stage at diagnosis with increasing socioeconomic disadvantage.

In our study, neonates without HIE had a mean cord pH of 7.24, while those with severe HIE had a mean pH of 6.8, indicating a clear trend: as cord pH decreases, the risk of severe HIE increases.

Overall, the results demonstrate a clear trend: As the ensemble size increases, recall improves consistently, while precision and F1-score tend to diminish. 3.3.

These findings agree with our results, as in patients with both TGs ≥150 mg/dL (≥ 1.7 mmol/L) and LDL-C ≤ 70 mg/dL (1.8 mmol/L) the LDL-C M/H levels had a clear trend for being higher compared with LDL-C F .

iMSCs were seeded on the mixed PDMS substrates as described before, using only the 184, 10:1 1:1, 1:10, and 527 groups, as the differences in the elastic moduli were pronounced enough to still observe a clear trend in angiogenic activity.

A clear trend is observed in the transfer characteristics: curves go from a conventional ambipolar behavior in Figure 5 c to a limit of strongly quenched n-type conduction for the largest coverage in Figure 5 g.

In this regard, the panel did not reach a consensus on the appropriateness of giving other types of chemotherapy (for example, docetaxel + gemcitabine), although there was a clear trend toward consensus disagreement.

The long-term follow-up (10 years) of patients, as well as the longitudinal comparison showing a clear trend over time, can be considered as other strengths of our study.

Characteristics of T-cell populations during the COVID-19 clinical course seem to follow a clear trend.

Comparing the Nyquist-plots recorded at different DC charge/discharge currents, a clear trend can be seen in Fig. 4c .

Furthermore, our findings indicate a clear trend of increasing mean concentrations for certain water quality parameters (TN, TP, TDP, and turbidity), MCs (MCRR, MCYR, and MCLR), and cyanobacteria abundance ( Cyanobium_PCC-6307 and Planktothrix_NIVA-CYA_15 ) during the summer and autumn seasons, with a subsequent decrease during the winter and spring in the hinterland of the TGRA over the course of 12 months following the floods.

Results: While PCa ASIRs remain much lower in the Asian nations examined than in North America, there is a clear trend of increasing PCa ASIRs in the four countries examined.

At 9 and 18 months, a clear trend in the scores was observed in the macroscopic repair evaluation of the chondral defects treated with PACI + PRP, with the scores of the PACI + PRP knees being substantially higher according to the three evaluation systems used than those of their respective control knees treated with RLS or HA.

Second order data Time series analysis Using the same procedure as the first order time series, segmented regression of the second order citation data demonstrated a clear trend change from 2004 (Fig. 3 ).

There is also a clear trend to expand the list of used starter microorganisms using non-traditional genera of LAB and yeast, such as Weissella and Wickerhamomyces , and AAB, which are constant and almost unstudied companions of LAB and yeast in the fermentations they carry out.