“a decreasing trend”

Result and Discussion Overall, the annual incidence of Salmonella infection showed a decreasing trend and the proportion came down significantly from 2% in 2005 to 1.0% in 2013 ( P < 0.001).

Mother's literacy status A decreasing trend in all forms of undernutrition is observed where the literacy status of mother increased.[ 22 ] Children of illiterate women were twice as likely to show signs of underweight and stunting as those who had at least completed high school.

Figure 2 , presents a decreasing trend for the Iranian rural households food and health expenditures over the time.

A decreasing trend in weight and BMI z-scores was also detected in GnRHa-treated patients shortly after stopping therapy, but did not reach significance (n = 37, see Table 2 ).

More importantly, Figure 5 shows that the increasing trend of distilled water conductivity with temperature changes to a decreasing trend with the addition of dispersants.

We found a decreasing trend of diabetes prevalence with increasing hours of overtime up to 100 hours per month.

In this study, the SOC changed slowly, and even had a decreasing trend in the 1960s.

HeLa cells transfected with CLOCK-WT-Luc and REV-ERBα showed a decreasing trend in luciferase activity that was dependent on the dosage of REV-ERBα ( Fig. 4B ), consistent with former report.

A decreasing trend in overall MMP activity with age as measured using a generic MMP substrate was observed.

For all three proteins a decreasing trend is observed with increasing fluorescence.

However, a decreasing trend was demonstrated even before the intervention.

Tuberculosis mortality rates showed a decreasing trend because of lower incidence and efficacy of treatment.

Although, more recent studies and meta-analysis have reported a wide range of HB infection prevalence rates of 1.2% and 9.7% in different parts of Iran ( 25 - 28 ), the result of comparative studies among some groups of adult population and reviews showed a decreasing trend in HBsAg prevalence in general and especially among children and adolescents ( 29 - 35 ).

Overall, the rate of injuries was significantly associated with year ( p = 0.040), with a decreasing trend over the 10-year period.

Although there was a decreasing trend observed in mitotic and vessel counts of the GSNO treated mice tumors, we could not detect a significant change ( Fig. 5F–G ).

A decreasing trend was noted in both flow and SI for the hypocapnic levels in comparison to baseline (non-significant).

The prevalence of OAD use increased from 1.8% in 2005 to 2.4% in 2011; however a decreasing trend in incidence of OAD use was observed, particularly in those aged 70 years and older.

IPA calculates a z-score for each functional category where a positive z-score predicts that the biological process is trending towards an increase, and a negative z-score corresponds to a decreasing trend.

In contrast, TIN showed a decreasing trend from the southeast to northeast sites in both seasons.

For the inhalation time, a decreasing trend exists with decreasing resistance, similar for all age groups ( Figure 5D ).

Within this set, 22 proteins displayed a decreasing trend of SILAC ratio from sample A to sample D and a ratio value in sample D below the statistically significant threshold of two sigma levels (5%), so they were considered genuine E-3810 binders ( Table I and supplemental Fig.

There was a decreasing trend in traffic accidents and increasing one in falls as a cause of fracture over the 11-years period of this study.

As shown in Figure 3 B, and Table 3 , only WA-3 group showed a decreasing trend of NTx level compared to the other two groups, however, there were no significant differences observed in NTx levels among all groups.

The incidence of HIV, HBsAg and HCV showed a decreasing trend.

The prevalence of HCV infection among blood donors in the past 10 years showed a decreasing trend, from 0.28 in 2003 to 0.12 in 2012.