“a positive trend”

Thus, these results indicate a positive trend in behavioral practices, even though the literature reminds us that vigilance must remain constant to prevent accidents related to biomedical waste.

Swimmers with EP in the IT group showed a positive trend in MVC, with an approximately 2% increase, whereas the MVC of subjects in the R.I.C.E. treatment group and control group decreased by approximately 4% and 5%, respectively.

This study shows that different age groups of consumers are showing a positive trend towards distance retailing of medicines.

Accordingly, this difference is more appropriately interpreted as a positive trend.

Among B-mature cell neoplasms, we evidenced a positive trend of follicular lymphoma (4.0%), marginal zone lymphoma (2.9%), and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (1.2%), in contrast with the negative trend for chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma (-2.2%).

Regarding the red blood cells (RBCs): a positive trend was observed from well 1 to well 3, indicating that the smaller RBCs progressively accumulate in the outlets farther from the inlet point.

These results imply a positive trend in the use of contraception among young women in Ghana.

RA is considered as the most common chronic systemic auto-immune disease affecting joints, musculoskeletal apparatus, and fibrous tissues [ 37 ], whose incidence is expected to follow a positive trend during the following years [ 38 ].

On the positive side, we document a positive trend in time spent by fathers in Childcare and the reversal of the sign of the gender gap in Quality childcare during weekend days.

Social function: Interpersonal communication and work/study abilities were significantly improved ( p < 0.05), and social support showed a positive trend but did not reach significance ( p = 0.083).

There is a positive trend towards a higher rate of organ preservation with total neoadjuvant therapy (chemoradiotherapy followed by consolidation chemotherapy, CRT-CNCT) and the watch-and-wait approach compared to induction chemotherapy followed by chemoradiotherapy (INCT-CRT) ( Aref and Abdalla, 2022 ; Garcia-Aguilar et al., 2022 ; Sütcüoğlu et al., 2023 ).

A positive trend emerged with regard to patient safety reporting, with a significant proportion of participants (41.3% and 32.9%) reporting 6 or 10 patient safety events in the past year, while fewer participants (29.9% and 27.2%) reported three to five events in Dammam and Jeddah, respectively.

SHAP values for hospital days display a positive trend, indicating that longer hospital stays generally elevate the model’s prediction.

There was a positive trend in the association between malrotation and PROs, but this was not statistically significant (p=0.09).

A clinical trial on omega-3 and omega-6 supplement on clinical outcome in PwMS showed a positive trend in favor of patients treated with omega-3 [ 82 ].

A positive trend ( r = 0.549) between the enzymatic inhibition of Mtb-MurE (IC 50 ) and the growth inhibition of M. tuberculosis H 37 Rv (MIC) was observed for eight THIs, which had IC 50 and MIC values in the range 40–400 μM.

The presence of a positive trend towards improving bone health with declining deprivation suggests a dose–response relationship.

Furthermore, as recently observed in large multicenter randomized trials, a positive trend favoring lenalidomide plus R-CHOP versus R-CHOP alone was observed in previously untreated high-risk DLBCL [ 16 ].

No significant effects emerged in either group, though a positive trend was observed.

Moreover, three studies [ 57 , 61 , 62 ] out of seven showed a significant effect of this intervention in the amelioration of physical performance; the studies that did not reach statistical significance showed a positive trend in the intervention group.

Upon examination of an overall pool of 764 patients, there appears to be a positive trend in the reduction and/or remission of abdominal symptoms with the implementation of probiotics.

While these developments indicate a positive trend toward improved economic sustainability, overall treatment costs remain high.

Regarding other factors related to HRQoL, we found that being sedentary was associated with below PCS scores and also observed a positive trend between tumour extension and this dimension.

The alignment of the findings with previous reports suggests a positive trend in the knowledge levels among respondents, particularly regarding the factors associated with obesity.

Notably, a positive trend was noted in our hospital, with the incidence of ischemic stroke and hemorrhagic stroke decreasing from 15.9 to 6.9% in 2016 [ 10 ].