“a positive trend”

Among women, breast cancer showed a positive trend in age-standardized mortality rate, and it was the only cause that increased for them.

In fact, there was a positive trend in relation to GDP, indicating that more affluent regions may have an increased burden of melanoma.

Larger increases are found among CMIP6-SSP5-8.5 (42 models, 46 realizations), with 85% of models displaying a positive trend, as compared with 60% of CMIP5-RCP8.5 (33 models, 75 realizations), with a reduced spread among CMIP6-SSP5-8.5 models.

Despite the GDP of Urumchi was slightly affected during the reemergence period, a positive trend can still be recognized.

Although no significant association was found between the basal ganglia network and ESS scores after correction for multiple comparisons, increasing network connectivity of the former was seen to have a positive trend of correlation with EDS.

Result Although periarteriole CFZ showed a positive trend with PVS width and volume, no significant associations were found.

A positive trend existed for the relationship between dietary diversity and gut microbial alpha diversity (Faith’s PD), although not statistically significant (t-value = 1.63, r = 0.20, p = 0.108, Fig. 4 b).None of the main effects, age (F1,53 = 0.27, p = 0.603), region (F1,53 = 0.11, p = 0.742), balsam fir consumption (F1,53 = 2.23, p = 0.141), GA:C (F1,53 = 0.43, p = 0.516), or UN:C (F1,53 < 0.01, p = 0.996) were statistically significant in their relationship with gut microbial diversity.

While it is a positive trend to see an increase in use of demographic and geographic data, this discovery underscores the need to identify solutions to remove barriers to data accessibility for other equity-relevant data sources, such as SDOH data (eg, housing, transportation, income, education, and employment) that would amplify equity in public health dashboards.

Finally, regarding natural enemies, we mainly found a significant effect on their abundance, not on species diversity, and only a positive trend in the species richness of rarer species in the community (Hill number N1).

Additionally, the growing interest in evidence-based policy that is driven by data and research, as highlighted by experts, is a positive trend that aligns with global patterns and is supported by the recently published Saudi Health Council manual, which serves as a guide for policymakers, emphasizing the role of evidence-based policy in the policymaking process ( 24 ).

A positive trend in the increase in these inflammatory biomarkers in the smokers compared with never smokers was reported. 22 This reflects on the hypothesis that smoking significantly impacts circulating inflammatory biomarkers, which could be a contributing factor in developing MPNs. 22 Two similar studies 15 , 20 investigated the prevalence and frequency of the clonal hematopoiesis (JAK2V617F mutation) in smokers compared to non-smokers.

A positive trend in favour of the male population was noticed for the HF power, but statistical significance was not reached (SMD [95% CI] 0.14 [− 0.01, 0.29], p = 0.07, 692 subjects, 6 studies).

The authors found a positive trend in MTL coinciding with a period of geographic expansion of the fisheries, followed by a negative trend in MTL, thus displaying signals of fishing down.

In the male elderly population, a positive trend within blood heavy metal levels was connected with DRT and AFT; in the female population, a negative trend was associated with IRT and AFT; instead, a positive trend was associated with DSST.

In the multivariate Poisson regression model, depression showed a positive trend toward a higher incidence of CLABSI (incidence rate (IR) 2.38; 95% CI: 0.93–6.04), although this was not statistically significant (p = 0.06) ( S3 Table ).

A retrospective study, carried out between 1992 and 2006, with 2,334 couples, from a university center in Belgium, with the objective of evaluating trends regarding the final destination of SCE, showed a positive trend in the donation to science, a fact that opens up more optimistic perspectives for the availability of embryos for stem cell research, and a negative trend in donation to other couples and means of disposal.

Additionally, we noted that RSP scores at T2 continued to improve in every test administered, indicating a positive trend over time, whereas nRSP scores showed different trajectories (Figures 1 and 2 ).

It can be seen that China has contained the development of the epidemic within only two months, which has led to a positive trend.

Results This assessment revealed a positive trend in the use of provider-administered and self-injection DMPA-SC from 2020 to 2023.

However, the lack of significant association between the type of CFD and differences in acetabulum orientation (Spearman’s rank correlation not significant, however showing a positive trend between the inclination angle and the severity of the disease) may be caused by more global changes inside the acetabulum, in which the decrease in the length (or depth) of the anterior wall accompanies the deficit in the posterior wall.

With respect to other risk factors such as weight ( d =0.4076) and pulse ( d =0.4518), we observed a positive trend with a mean decrease in weight of 0.02 kg and a mean decrease in pulse of 3 bpm, although the results were not statistically significant.

Urinary incontinence outcomes did not reach statistical significance; however, a positive trend was observed.

Furthermore, serum CCDC11 levels demonstrated a positive trend correlating with the number of lesioned coronary vessels ( P for trend < 0.001).

Conclusions We found that the attitudes of the Chinese public towards animal welfare showed a positive trend, which is probably driven by factors such as higher education levels and gender, both of which were highly influential in our survey.

Also, they observed a positive trend between number of years spent in education and global DNA-methylation.