“a decreasing trend”

A retrospective study of the medical records in the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH), a tertiary hospital in Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria, found a decreasing trend in maternal mortality, from 3,026 per 100,000 live births in 1999, to 941 in 2009, [ 6 ].

A decreasing trend in the size of Ag cores along with the growing thickness of the silica shells found for increasing volumes of ethanol is depicted in Figure 5 .

The pH showed a decreasing trend with culture time due to the biofilms producing acids.

The age-specific trend showed a decreasing trend from infants to schoolchildren, a gradually increasing trend from adolescents to middle ages, and finally a declining trend towards the older ages.

The only independent variable that had a significant impact on particle size was %L: increasing the particle size showed a decreasing trend.

A decreasing trend in annual cases was observed for both genders for patients aged 50–59, 60–69, and older than 70 years.

1 However, a very recent study from Japan indicated that the incidence of EAC has started to increase in Japan, 2 due at least in part to a decreasing trend in the Helicobacter pylori infection rate in the general Japanese population, which is lagging 50 years behind Western countries.

In the current study, all ADC variables in BMs from breast cancer revealed a decreasing trend in the ER/PR-positive group, compared with the ER/PR-negative group.

Some concerns have been cited in recent literature regarding a decreasing trend in the number of monsoon depressions due to a decline in the mid-tropospheric RH and moisture flux convergence, weakening the low-level jet 17 – 20 .

Results The five-year PCS rate was 28.9%, with a decreasing trend from 31.4% in 2009 to 26.1% in 2013.

However, there was no statistically significant correlation between regular QA time and total yearly breakdown case ( P = 0.12), although there has been a decreasing trend observed in the yearly total breakdown.

In 2010, there was a decreasing trend of people reporting poor health from the poorest to the richest, while in 2014, there was no significant difference between the poorest and lower 20% or between the higher 20% and the medium 20%.

A study published in 2010 observed a decreasing trend not only for severe forms of CHD but also for simple forms of CHD in Taiwan [ 3 ].

The mid-latitudes show values around 0.05 mm h −1 with a decreasing trend towards the poles.

1 INTRODUCTION Several studies have reported a worldwide increase in thyroid cancer incidence and a decreasing trend in mortality. 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 In addition, in Japan, the age‐adjusted thyroid cancer incidence rate increased: from 2.1 and 9.3 per 100 000 person‐years among men and women, respectively, in 1990 to 4.1 and 12.3 per 100 000 person‐years in 2012.

In our study we find that the frequency of PTB and EPTB has a decreasing trend in FBiH, but the ratio of PTB and EPTB remains approximately the same- from 13% in 2014 to 11% in 2017. 5.

The annual TB incidence generally presented a decreasing trend; nevertheless, a noticeable rebound was discerned from 2013 to 2015 (Fig. 2 ).

After 2% MPTS modification, the pore volumes within both size ranges were very high, and then with the increase of MPTS concentration, the pore volumes in the mesopore regions (4–5 nm, 6–10 nm, 12–15 nm and 19–25 nm) all showed a decreasing trend, indicating that more and more MPTS filled the pores (grafted on the silica surface) with the increasing concentration.

In the last three years of the study, there was a decreasing trend in the mean age of EDs.

MiR-486-5p was another miRNA that showed a decreasing trend of villus expression in RM patients, and its lower expression level in the cumulus cells of polycystic ovary syndrome patients was also reported [ 30 ].

According to these authors,[ 30 ] a decreasing trend was observed with respect to count (mean) of tall cells, cells with reddish cytoplasm, and intranuclear cytoplasmic inclusions (INCIs) from PTC (TCV) to PTC (FV) through PTC (sig.

We therefore have 7 Substituting Equation (3) into Equation (4) , the focal length can be theoretically calculated as cot( φ t ) x 1 and is shown as the blue lines in Figure 5f and 5g , which also exhibits a decreasing trend of focal length with increases of the incident wavelength.

The DALYs caused by self-harm were mostly caused by YLLs, increased overall for nine years and then showed a decreasing trend over the last four years.

We also found that Pseudomonas showed a decreasing trend in the patients that acquired clinical improvement, and Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium showed an upward trend in those patients.

Lastly, a decreasing trend was observed between the VVS terciles and the general health domain of the SF-36 in the crude model ( P -trend = 0.02); but the observed trend was not statistically significant in the multivariate model ( P -trend = 0.18).