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The number of Whipple's procedures performed annually has increased during the study period, with a decreasing trend of mortality, with no deaths in the last 3 years of the study period out of 52 operations.

As shown in Figure 1 , a decreasing trend of the Oxa-51 DNA level was found in the survivors, whereas continuously high levels of Oxa-51 DNA were found in the nonsurvivors.

Although there has been a decreasing trend in the average number of citations per item since the mid-1990 s, it is difficult to draw firm conclusions on the relevance of this finding; it may be explained by the sharp increase in the number of outputs in the intervening years, or indeed by the time-lag associated with citation analysis which results in an inherent bias towards older publications.

A decreasing trend was also observed for sf COMP, while interestingly sf MMP-3 did not change over time.

While the numbers of expected cancer deaths in the stomach and liver show a decreasing trend, the cancer in the lung, colorectum, pancreas, breast, and oral cavity have an increasing trend.

pmc-status-qastatus 0 pmc-status-live yes pmc-status-embargo no pmc-status-released yes pmc-prop-open-access yes pmc-prop-olf no pmc-prop-manuscript no pmc-prop-legally-suppressed no pmc-prop-has-pdf yes pmc-prop-has-supplement no pmc-prop-pdf-only yes pmc-prop-suppress-copyright no pmc-prop-is-real-version no pmc-prop-is-scanned-article no pmc-prop-preprint no pmc-prop-in-epmc yes INTRODUCTION There has been a decreasing trend in complications of dia- betes such as diabetic retinopathy or nephropathy due to better treatment and understanding of the disease.

There is a decreasing trend of insertion events per intron length as intron length increases in both YRI and JPTCHB ( Figure 2D and F ).

Nevertheless, despite a decreasing trend over time, TURP complications still occur [ 4 ].

Our results may overestimate the impact of anti-smoking legislation, as there has been a decreasing trend in exposure to passive smoking and the prevalence of smokers in most industrialized countries prior to the introduction of anti-smoking by-laws.

The PTT showed a decreasing trend toward normalization by the end of the study.

For the preferential attachment network, however, there is an increasing trend between treatment success and the measures of betweenness and closeness and a decreasing trend between treatment success and local clustering coefficient ( figure 6 ).

For alcohol consumption, a decreasing trend in risk was found for both coronary diseases.

In contrast, the predicted probabilities for those not receiving SDC in all grades during childhood were generally lower across all age groups, with a decreasing trend after 44 years of age (Figure 2B ).

Generally, a decreasing trend on PMMR in China was detected with the PMMR during the 1996-2000 period, which was higher than that during the 2001-2005 period.

Prescription prevalence of analgesics of all levels showed an increasing trend over the period 2000–2008 (annual increases range: 1.1–1.5%) but a decreasing trend with age (average decrease per group range: −5.8 to −1.8%).

A decreasing trend across time was apparent, along with a strong within-sample correlation, suggesting that error rates heavily depend on sample quality.

The mixed-model ANOVA on respiratory frequency, showed a significant main effect for Time ( F 1,41 = 4.82; P = .034), indicating a decreasing trend of the number of breaths per minute (Pre = 20.36 ± 2.14; Post = 19.97 ± 1.86).

At 50 μ g/mL, there was a decreasing trend in the atrial rate response to the venom in the untreated group whereas the MPE-pretreated group actually showed an increasing trend in the atrial rate response to the same dose of venom ( Figure 1(b) ).

Overall, the concentration of air pollutants in Beijing showed an increasing trend from 2003 to 2006, and a decreasing trend in 2007 and 2008 (cf.

This pattern of results indicated a decreasing trend in socioeconomic disparities in belief in harmfulness of “light” cigarettes.

The percent rates of HIV cases for Cameroon showed a decreasing trend after 2000, declining as much as 9% in 2006.

While the prevalence of HDV is showing a decreasing trend globally, it is important to realize that globalization and increasing migratory fluxes are major challenges and HDV will not be controlled adequately unless HBV is brought under control in areas with high prevalence.

Note that a decreasing trend is shown by a negative coefficient of the time variable.

This indicates a decreasing trend in sensitivity of Δ p to GW insertion in stenoses with higher severity.

When comparing time trends among childhood-diagnosed cases and cases diagnosed between the ages of 15 and 34 years in Sweden between 1983 and 1998, no clear increase was notable in age-groups >15 years ( 4 ), and a recent report ( 5 ) covering this age-group indicated rather a decreasing trend of type 1 diabetes among young adults.