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Some studies revealed a positive trend found between urinary heavy metals and periodontitis using multiple logistic regression and Bayesian kernel machine regression.

The two graphs are similar, both confirming, as expected, a positive trend for all methodologies.

Stream flow Analysis results for the annual and seasonal timescales showed a positive trend in the observed stream flow of all stations except Dembi and Big Anger ( Table 5 ).

The findings of this study suggest a positive trend in sodium education, particularly considering the cardiovascular stress associated with large IDWG.

On the multiplicative scale, the interaction terms showed a positive trend but did not reach statistical significance across the models.

5 Conclusion The use of extracranial vertebral artery stenting in elderly patients with symptomatic VAS has yielded favorable ISR outcomes and demonstrated a positive trend in clinical safety, including a low incidence of periprocedural complications and mid-term target-vessel territory strokes.

Although there is a positive trend of improving wellbeing in all of Brazil, with important reductions in inequalities, the semiarid region appears worse off in terms of key indicators of health and wellbeing.

In the straight electrode group, there was a positive trend (the correlation coefficient of the preoperative CVC phoneme score with the CVC50 outcome was higher than for the group containing all participants; Table 2 ); however, the number of participants might have been too low to detect a statistical significance (n = 44).

Recent SII reports show a fourfold increase in the number of fee invoices issued between February 2024 (40,000) and August 2024 (180,000), marking a positive trend toward formalization and access to social protection for independent workers at platform companies ( Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare (MTPS), 2025 ).

However, the acteoside concentration in the immature leaves tended (Kruskal–Wallis H statistic p = 0.064) to show a positive trend with increasing light intensity, being 5.67 mg g −1 DM for L200, 10.0 mg g −1 DM for L300 and 12.8 for L400. 2.6.

More recent studies have shown a positive trend towards use of hypertonic saline compared to mannitol [ 54 , 55 ], although this has been questioned by others [ 56 ].

A positive trend in the number of Atlantic tropical cyclones has been observed since 1990, although it is not possible to directly extrapolate those results to the Canary Islands’ local conditions.

We found that AAV6-Gsx1 (12.01% ​± ​0.8; n ​= ​3) and LV-Gsx1-GFP (13.29% ​± ​2.18; n ​= ​3) did not significantly increase cell proliferation in comparison with the control (7.72% ​± ​1.41; n ​= ​3), however a positive trend is obvious ( supplemental Fig.

With reference to recent studies [ 17 , 18 ] and due to ongoing public health efforts to promote PA and fitness [ 19 ], we hypothesized a positive trend in physical fitness development of children and adolescents over time.

They found somewhat similar results as in the present study: an immediate decrease in the incidence of NOACs followed by a positive trend during the first pandemic period.

These data show that the volumetric mass transfer rate experienced a positive trend, which is continuing to increase during the cultivation process.

Also, in terms of tuberculosis preventive treatment—an intervention mainly provided to people with HIV that helps to cut the risk of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection progressing to active disease—the report unveiled that there was a 21% decrease in the number of people receiving this treatment globally during 2019–20 (from 3·6 million to 2·8 million), showing a reversal of a positive trend, which was noted during 2015–19 (increasing from 1 million to 3·6 million in that period). “We are heavily worried about how the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted TB care and prevention in countries with a high TB burden”, said Lucica Ditiu (Stop TB Partnership, Geneva, Switzerland).

Finally, the study demonstrated a positive trend toward improvement in fatigue in the patient group.

Neoadjuvant radiotherapy was also significantly associated with increased leakage risk (OR ≈ 3.29, 95% CI: 1.10–9.82, p ≈ 0.033), while neoadjuvant chemotherapy showed a positive trend toward higher leakage risk but did not reach statistical significance (OR ≈ 2.87, 95% CI: 0.94–8.78, p ≈ 0.064).

There was a positive trend between the levels of LFA and mean LAA.

However, within the 0.55–0.8 range, walking propensity declined with greater mix, while beyond 0.8, it again exhibited a positive trend (Fig. 11 ) [ 47 ].

The results showed that AE (SMD = 0.85, 95% CI: 0.35–1.36) and MBE (SMD = 1.18, 95% CI: 0.32–2.04) significantly improved cognitive function, whereas ME (SMD = 0.58, 95% CI: −0.14–1.31) demonstrated a positive trend but did not reach statistical significance, as its confidence interval included zero.

Although this simulation has no trend in wind stress, it still has a positive trend in ice concentration and extent in this sector, and the signature of the heat trapping at depth associated with positive sea-ice concentration changes appears in the correlations.

Specifically, a positive trend can be seen relating to teamworking activities.

This study confirmed a positive trend in lowering blood lipids following potato and lotus leaf extract intake.