“a decreasing trend”

The six minute walking distance challenge test seemed to show a decreasing trend with increasing exacerbation severity but such changes did not reach statistical significance.

The age at menarch Age at menarche shows a decreasing trend as the geographic latitude approaches approximately the 25–30 degrees and then increases again toward 0 degrees (near the equator) (Table 3 , Figure 2a ).

Level of patients care There has been a decreasing trend of outpatient use at government health facilities.

Despite we did not observe any significant difference in the average FEV1 due to the small sample size, these measures indicate an opposite trend in the two groups: FEV1 tended to increase in the experimental treatment group, while in the standard treatment a decreasing trend was observed.

In 2001, two million Germans have been in need of nursing care and 604,000 persons have been institutionalized in 9,165 nursing homes (NHs), with a decreasing trend for family care and an increasing trend for institutional care at the end of life [ 3 ].

Our finding that the synovial infiltration of mononuclear cells decrease significantly after treatment with infliximab (3 mg/kg), whereas T cells show only a decreasing trend, has also been reported previously [ 20 ].

In Figure 3 the precision starts from a much higher point (100%) in Relemed compared to PubMed, and shows a decreasing trend.

From table 1 , one might get the impression of a decreasing trend in the prevalence of microalbuminuria in Africa.

A decreasing trend for female breast cancer mortality began in 1994.

Thus, a local trace of rTMS conditioning, manifested mainly as an increase in SWA, was present for at least the first 30 minutes of sleep, and showed a decreasing trend in the course of the sleep episode.

A decreasing trend in conversion rate can, however, be seen within the first four cohorts before the introduction of the harmonic scalpel.

However we noticed a decreasing trend in the transport rate as time elapsed (Figure 1 ).

Dots 1-4 on the "Weighted" map show the locations of the 4 stations measuring solar radiation energy (see Table III). A decreasing trend in the risk of lip cancer in males has been observable in all Nordic countries except Sweden, where the trend has run a remarkably stable course.

A decreasing trend of maternal mortality with corresponding increases in population based caesarean section rates, and without increase of professional attendance at birth, support the views expressed by Maine and others that the accessibility of EmOC plays a large role in shaping maternal outcomes exclusive of the use of skilled attendance at births [ 33 ].

It is encouraging, however, that for lung cancer in men and breast cancer in women the secular trend has now turned downward, and for lung cancer in women, although rates are continuing to rise, there is a decreasing trend on a cohort basis, and therefore secular rates should turn down in the longer term.

[ 26 ]] we found a decreasing trend of the NDVI-FR and SINDVI in some of the vegetation types at Zackenberg (Figure 3A ).

The value of free energy of thermal denaturation (ΔG*) for glucose oxidase was 103.47 kJ mol −1 at 45°C, showing a decreasing trend with increase in temperature.

In cultures treated with IGF-I, the percentage of RIP − cells that incorporated BrdU also exhibited a decreasing trend in the first three time periods, but to a lesser extent compared with the cells grown without IGF-I ( Fig. 3 B, blue columns).

Later, both large and small individuals show a decreasing trend, suggesting that fishing pressure may affects the populations of this species.

In the treated group, the withdrawal threshold, calculated using the "up and down" method, showed a decreasing trend of sensitivity threshold with a minimum at the end of the experimental time frame at 12 ± 5.1 gr (fig. 5 ).

Despite a decreasing trend in incidence, stomach cancer is the fourth most common cancer in the world ( Parkin et al , 2005 ).

In 2000, the annual number of newly compensated cases was still almost 200 although with a decreasing trend ( Koppisch et al , 2004 ).

In 2002, a study of changes in surgical treatment of breast cancer in the city of Florence ( Paci et al , 2002 ) concluded that breast conserving surgery (BCS) was beneficial and showed a decreasing trend in mastectomy rates.

There was a decreasing trend in the MFI values of coupled beads after storage at 4°C in the dark for seven months (Figure 4 ).

A decreasing trend was observed with respect to muscle function (Tables 3 and 4 ).