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Concurrently, the lower limb muscle strength showed an increasing trend over the time in the experimental group and a decreasing trend in the control group, and the scores of the experimental group surpassed those of the control group (p<0.001).

Supplementation of HS in the chicken diet showed a decreasing trend of pH in the breast meat samples ( P < 0.001).

Compared with BJT, the JST outpatient services had an increasing trend in inflation-adjusted per-visit healthcare charges (APC = 3.4%, P <0.001) and no DIT in inflation-adjusted per-visit medicine charges or physician workload ( P = 0.40 and P = 0.134, respectively), while the JST inpatient service had a decreasing trend in inflation-adjusted per-visit medicine-charges (APC = -5.2%, P = 0.015) and no DIT in inflation-adjusted per-visit healthcare charges or physician workload ( P = 0.831 and P = 0.295, respectively).

LVM and LVMI showed a decreasing trend from T1 to T3, with LVM highest in T1 and lowest in T3, and LVMI declining from T1 to T3 (both p < 0.001).

Overall, no major clusters of transmitted drug resistance were identified, and the transmission of E157Q showed a decreasing trend ( p < 0.001).

Results: FBG, 2hPP, fasting insulin, HOMA-IR, and miR-152 showed an increasing trend across groups while miR-93 showed a decreasing trend (all p < 0.001).

The genetic distance showed a decreasing trend over time (Pearson correlation coefficient r = – 0.509, p < 0.001), suggesting that the sequence diversity of early virus was higher.

The incidence of elderly onset RA (EORA) in individuals aged >60 years exhibited a decreasing trend during the study period (age 60–69, −6.45, 95% CI = −8.27 to −4.62, p < 0.001; age ≥70, −6.09, 95% CI = −7.66 to −4.53, p < 0.001).

In contrast, BMI, prevalence of PCOS, AMH levels, and the number of oocytes retrieved showed a decreasing trend (all P < 0.001) ( Table 1 ). 3.2 Univariate analysis for number of oocytes retrieved The univariate analysis results are shown in Table 2 .

Over the years, a decreasing trend was observed for carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella species for VAP ( p -value < 0.001) and UTI ( p -value < 0.003), while the trend was not significant for BSI ( p -value = 0.134) and IAI ( p -value = 0.018).

Conversely, a decreasing trend was observed for deaths in health facilities ( p < 0.001).

We also found a decreasing trend in per capita medication expenditures for β -blockers (slope = −$0.5/year, P < 0.001) and cholinergic agonists (slope = −$0.5/year, P < 0.001).

The adjusted ORs showed a decreasing trend relative to the reference category (elementary school or below): 0.67 (95% CI: 0.56–0.79, P < 0.001) for middle school, 0.55 (95% CI: 0.43–0.71, P < 0.001) for high school, and 0.48 (95% CI: 0.23–0.99, P = 0.048) for college or above.

Chi-squared test showed that the majority of discharged patients had a decreasing trend in procalcitonin serum levels, with statistically significant differences from the expired group ( P < 0.001) [ Table 2 ].

Among hospitalised patients, ICU-admissions were also different by season throughout the study period and showed a decreasing trend (p < 0.001).

Among participants with moderate-to-severe OSAS, glucose increased after sleep onset, whereas glucose of participants without OSAS or with mild OSAS had a decreasing trend during the first stage of sleep ( F = 8.933, p < 0.001) [ 6 ].

In each group, the proportion of patients with CTS undergoing surgery increased with age, peaking at 50 years (16.0%), followed by a decreasing trend ( p < 0.001).

Conversely, the oxygenation index and blood pH showed a decreasing trend (all P < 0.001).

TLR7 levels showed a decreasing trend with increased COVID-19 severity, being lower in patients with moderate disease (β-coeff: -0.45 [95%CI -0.65, -0.25], p<0.001) and further reduced in patients with severe disease (β-coeff: -0.69 [95%CI -0.99, -0.40], p<0.001) compared to those with mild disease.

Additionally, the average intracranial pressure (ICP) demonstrated a significant increase with higher class levels ( p < 0.001), while CT values exhibited a decreasing trend ( p < 0.001).

According to segmented regression analysis, there was a decreasing trend in the amount of aminoglycoside and quinolone consumption before the intervention ( p < 0.001 for each antibiotic) ( Table 2 ).

While GSH-Px showed a decreasing trend ( P < 0.001) as the transport duration increased (1.44 vs. 1.21 vs. 0.06 vs. 0.04 μmol/mg Hb for T1, T2, T3, and T4, respectively).

The baseline rate indicated that 26.23% (95% CI: 19.94–34.49%, p < 0.001) of eligible youth received at least one HPV vaccine dose in the first quarter with a decreasing trend over time to 18.7% (95% CI: 15.42–21.84) or 0.81 times per quarter (95% CI: 0.72–0.88, p < 0.001), and assuming no effects from any other factors ( Figure 9 a,b).

Variables such as age, weight, RBC count, hemoglobin, hematocrit, albumin, PCO2, PO2, and pH showed a decreasing trend with increasing LAR ( P < 0.001), while WBC count, RDW, creatinine, BUN, ALT, AST, potassium, glucose, INR, PT, PTT, and lactate demonstrated an increasing trend with higher LAR quartiles (all P < 0.001).

Hemato-oncologic diagnoses showed a decreasing trend from 8.7% in the O group to only 1.0% in the VVO group (p<0.001).