“a positive trend”

In this review, there is a positive trend in adult patients over 40 years of age who did not have neonatal screening, probably because the NBS was not yet established in their country.

After orthodontic treatment in the non-extraction group, the left and right corners of the mouth showed a positive trend, showing outward protrusion (cheilion left (ChL) = 0.42 mm, cheilion right (ChR) = 0.42 mm).

Although this figure represents a nearly 400% increase in the absolute number of physician assistants specializing in geriatric care since 2013 (indicating a positive trend), 739 significant gaps remain in the capacity of this workforce to support older adults living with dementia and other chronic health concerns.

The second group of countries maintained lighter measures throughout the duration of the pandemic and observed a positive trend break in the evolution of COVID-19 deaths.

A positive trend between β-carotene and CSF TNF-α was also observed, however this did not reach statistical significance ( P = 0.17).

Nonetheless, all three parameters exhibit a positive trend with time both in the Coral Sea and on Yonge Reef ( Fig. 2, A, D, and E ).

This can be explained by the fact that successful business activities make enterprises more inclined to continue investing money in their operations to maintain a positive trend rather than to increase productivity through green innovation.

Abdominal surgery and a longer ICU stay (> 15 days) showed a positive trend towards being risk factors for the presence of Candida spp. in blood cultures.

The number of economic evaluations of suicide prevention is still low, but there is a positive trend and methodological improvements have been made.

As shown in Figure 2 D, a positive trend was observed again between the percentage of cell transduction and potency measurement; although within this range, significant differences were only observed between 40% and 50% transduction conditions.

In our study, we found a positive association of FIQ with right caudate volume, and a positive trend with the left caudate in the SZ group, unlike in the NT group where these associations were found to be negative.

Three major conclusions are as follows: (1) at the initial outbreak stage, the correlation of population mobility from different regions into Shenzhen and the spread of COVID-19 presents a positive trend; (2) during the outbreak and peak periods, China’s national travel ban policy achieved unprecedented effectiveness, and the correlation shows a significant decrease tendency; (3) in the containment period, the correlation no longer shows a clear positive trend, the national restrictions can be appropriately liberalized and appropriate economic recovery policies can be adopted properly, but attention still needs to be paid to large-scale mobility domestically and especially internationally in the long run, especially for high-risk areas.

OS analysis of IMpower 010 indicates a positive trend favouring atezolizumab after adjuvant chemotherapy in PD-L1 positive subgroup analyses, primarily driven by the PD-L1 tumor cell ≥50% stage II–IIIA subgroup ( 18 ).

First, there is a positive trend where higher levels of PA are generally associated with greater well-being.

Overall, a positive trend is observed, suggesting that higher salt levels are generally associated with increased yeast growth.

This should be considered a positive trend since recent studies indicate that current models of anxiety are not sufficient to fully explain levels and breadth of uncertainty distress caused by the pandemic as an objective threat that provokes the felling of insecurity (Freeston et al., 2020 ).

A previous study conducted in the Valencian Community [ 16 ] showed a positive trend (persistent, systematic tendency of a series) and marked seasonality for hip fracture incidence, with increases in the autumn and winter compared to spring and summer.

Biochemical analysis further confirmed enhanced liver function, with marked reductions in serum ALT, AST, and TBIL, alongside a positive trend in ALB levels ( Figure 5 D).

When the anthropometric measurements of the UC patients were evaluated in this study, a positive trend was observed in the weight z-score for age, height z-score for age, and BMI z-score for the age measurements in the 1st and 2nd years of follow-up after diagnosis, but this increase was not statistically significant.

Likewise, Blanckenberg et al 21 found an improvement in colposcopy uptake by 18% from 1 year before to 1 year after the establishment of colposcopy service in a rural health center with a positive trend.

A positive trend between the odds of bTB positive status and fragmentation level was apparent.

In the CRANIUM arm, lipid screening and HIV testing increased compared to usual care, and a positive trend was observed for diabetes screening.

Similarly, the non-significant relationship between years of education and health literacy, despite a positive trend, could reflect the influence of other mediating factors, such as the quality of education or the relevance of educational content to health-related topics.

A positive trend between diffusion coefficients and cell size was also evident in analyses of individual cells ( Figure 1D ).

The above findings indicate a positive trend in the performance of UPMSC in medicines’ procurement, storage, quality testing, and delivery.