Based on the obtained results of the Hedge g test with 95% confidence interval for differences between morphological characteristics in relation to sex, children aged 7 years in 1990 and 2020, 7-year-old boys in 1990 show a positive trend in body height ( g = 0.7), body mass ( g = 0.68), upper arm skinfold ( g = 1.49), and forearm circumference ( g = 0.52).
A positive trend in the incidence of knee OA was observed in a registry-based study from Belgium, between 2006 and 2015, with an annual percentage change of 1.9% [ 25 ].
However, a positive trend is certainly identifiable, especially for IBD.
Conversely, among females ( n = 46), a positive association was observed between T3 and BDE-99, 2,4,6-TBP, and ΣBFRs, and, although not statistically significant, BDE-47, −153, and ΣBDEs also showed a positive trend with T3.
Even though there is a positive trend in improved cancer-related mortality, an emerging increase in CV mortality and morbidity in these patients is also noted. 19 Though highly effective in the treatment of solid tumors, new anticancer agents that inhibit the VEGF-signaling pathway raise concerns regarding their CV safety.
Recent meta-analyses indicate a positive trend over time, with reinfection rates decreasing.
On the basis of this grouping, there was a positive trend in the similarity of bone superpixels from MGUS to bone superpixels from posttreatment samples compared with bone superpixels from NDMM samples, even though this was not significant ( r = 0.4, P = 0.12 and r = −0.13, P = 0.63, Fig. 4G ).
A positive trend of results for the home learning environment was also found for interventions implemented in Central and Western Asia.
These results are in line with previous studies reporting a positive correlation between elevated lactate levels and neuropsychological symptoms in patients with mitochondrial diseases 43 , including a positive trend level association between in vivo brain 1 H-MRS lactate levels and negative symptoms in schizophrenia 24 .
A positive trend in GPP and NEE could be related to woody thickening or encroachment that is being observed across savannas and rangelands, defined as increasing density of trees and woody shrubs (Stevens et al., 2016 ).
This data are different from the information about central Italian regions (Amorena et al., 2009) and north-eastern Italian regions ( Bille et al., 2016 ), where a positive trend of poisoning was noticed from March to June and in September.
PLS provided a clear indication of the GC based e-nose's ability—it could clearly detect a positive trend in the prediction of the sensory score, HU and storage time values based on its responses, and the results demonstrated its capability.
The duration of the study was 48 h and results showed a positive trend for carob fraction but it was not efficacious in treating traveler’s diarrhea symptoms. 4.
Among women, cervical cancer was negatively related to education (RR 2.62), whereas a positive trend was present for cancers of the colon (RR 0.76), pancreas (RR 0.59), lung (RR 0.55) and breast (RR 0.65).
Also the key secondary endpoints, which included the difference in patient mortality at week four, were not met; however, there was a positive trend in time to hospital discharge.
After applying the square-root transformation to the data, the linear regression analysis demonstrated a positive trend but did not reach statistical significance ( p = 0.09).
We observed a positive trend in the app distribution.
Overall, all the Gulf Cooperation Council countries showed a positive trend between 1970 and 2010.
A positive trend was also observed for abdominal cramping (P for trend <0.0001).
After adjusting for participants' age and gender, the authors observed a positive trend of headache occurrence with increasing severity of sleep problems.
For mid-stomach tumors, a positive trend was also observed (with the NAC group faring better), though numbers were more limited when split out and significance was borderline.
This might indicate a positive trend in the ability of the EMCC system to identify missions with HEMS benefit following the intervention.
Consanguineous marriage is not only common but also has a positive trend in Iranian community.
Although a positive trend was observed in ejection fraction and fractional shortening for BIM 28131.
Both of these behaviors showed a positive trend when comparing the pre-test to both-follow-ups (Table 1 ).