“a decreasing trend”

As opposed to a saw-tooth effect of progressively increasing macular thickness, most patients showed either a decreasing trend in macular thickness or a tendency to reach a relatively consistent baseline following each treatment.

However, a decreasing trend was seen in patients with composite complications, and the occlusion slope on postoperative day 1 was lower in patients with composite complications, although this lacked statistical significance (−8.5 ± 2.7 versus −10.1 ± 6.0 %/min, P = 0.066, Table 2 ).

As the barycenter has a decreasing trend, we have plotted the inverse of it in order to make it easy to compare both curves.

IL-6 was in normal range and showed a decreasing trend during storage.

A decreasing trend of platelet count started to appear as the patient was maintained on hydroxyurea (1 g/day) and aspirin (80 mg/day) from the start of treatment [ Figure 1 ].

Levels were significantly higher than those of the AGA and LGA groups (Ba p = 0.027 and Mg p = 0.002), showing a decreasing trend (Table 3 ).

There is a decreasing trend in INFORM Risk, Hazard and Exposure, and Vulnerability, but Lack of Coping Capacity has remained the same since the last 3-year rating.

caspica assimilating branches did not significantly change with increasing levels of salinity in this study, a decreasing trend in K + content was observed with increasing salt stress.

In municipalities with less than 10,000 inhabitants the relative risk showed a decreasing trend even after 2009.

After the eviction of Zuccotti Park, the Jaccard index shows a decreasing trend in the semantic network while there is no trend in the users’ interest network.

The variation in risk-adjusted survival probabilities across hospitals for AMI shows a decreasing trend over time: estimated survival probabilities for AMI in 2011 varied from 80.6% (in the hospital with lowest estimated survival) to 91.7% (in the hospital with highest estimated survival), whereas it ranged from 83.8% to 91.2% in 2013.

In contrast, TPTD administration resulted in a decreasing trend for the bone resorption parameter Oc.S/BS and significantly decreased ES/BS.

Endoglin measurements showed a decreasing trend over time, with a nadir (16.88 ng/mL before plasmapheresis and 9.45 ng/mL after plasmapheresis) at 20 + 5 weeks of gestation ( Figure 1 ). sflt-1 levels measured before plasmapheresis as well one day after plasmapheresis showed a decreasing trend until the fifth course (24 + 5 weeks of gestation) ( Figure 2 ). plgf immediately after plasmapheresis showed an increasing trend throughout gestation.

In Figure 4A , from left to right, the percentages of additive effects varied from high value to low value, displaying a decreasing trend.

( 2009 ) reported most significant and rapid changes of over 80 % free of heavy metals in vermicomposted sludge with earthworms upon chemical analysis while Iordache and Borza ( 2012 ) reported a decreasing trend for lead, manganese, copper and zinc with lumbricoid earthworms.

2013, while the detection ratio of EV71 showed a decreasing trend ( Fig 2 ).

CT in exposure to Collagen/ADP showed a decreasing trend over time in ExHT and PaHT and significantly differed from CONT at Rec ( F = 7.6, p = 0.008).

We have found a higher rate of increased WC among pre-pubertal boys with a decreasing trend towards late/post-puberty, but the reverse trend was found in girls.

The δ 13 C values of AK specimens show a decreasing trend from the Upper Solutrean to the Azilian (~23–12 ka cal BP), ranging from δ 13 C −20.3 to −21.0‰ ( supplementary Table 3 and supplementary Fig. 1a ).

Soluble sugars, reducing sugars, total sugars, starch, and soluble protein showed a decreasing trend with increasing Cd under Cd stress alone ( Fig. 2a–d,f ).

observed a decreasing trend in Young’s modulus with increasing irradiances, reaching no statistically significant difference between the 18 mW/cm 2 and the control group.

jensenii displayed a decreasing trend with increasing pH while BV-associated BSP-encoding taxa displayed the opposite trend (Figure S1 ).

30 Polygamy, a decreasing trend in Nigeria, 31 32 is a culturally accepted practice in many communities; 33 it allows men to have as many children as possible whether or not they have the material resources to provide for the household—mainly due to son-preference 34 —and may be an additional factor for inappropriate feeding practices in Nigeria.

There was also a decreasing trend in T-scores at all sites with greater AUDIT scores.

However, there was a decreasing trend in DHEAS level noted for patients 35 years and above, but this was not significantly different from the average DHEAS level for individuals below 35 years.