“a positive trend”

Furthermore, a subset of HCPs noted improvements in data quality, indicating a positive trend in this regard.

With the decline of POP pollution in the Baltic Food chain since bans were enforced and the concomitant decline in POPs levels in seals, a positive trend in gynaecological health of Baltic seals has been reported, including a decreased incidence of uterine deformities, uterine leiomyomas, and increased pregnancies (Bergman 1999 ; Helle et al. 2007 ; Bäcklin et al. 2013 ).

According to some authors, studies using uniformly standardized methodology showed a positive trend in the prevalence of HT among adolescents especially with increasing prevalence of obesity, in contrast to other studies which showed a decrease [ 32 ].

While PC1 shows a positive trend with temperature, PC4 describes a negative trend connected more to the ammonia-oxidizing processes driven by bacteria.

Whilst the real trend of BA is not significant, a positive trend in BA would have been produced by climate forcing alone.

We also found a positive trend between processed meat consumption and elevated ALT enzyme (>55 UI/L) and fatty liver, the latter concordant with previous reports ( 71 ).

Nevertheless, the country does show a positive trend towards an RES orientation.

A positive trend was seen for association of fifths of CV of SBP and unfavorable shift on the mRS at 90 days ( Fig. 3 ).

( 78 ) had a larger group and did not see a positive trend toward diabetes in mutation carries.

In spinal cord astrocytomas, radiotherapy failed to reach a statistically significant effect in most publications [ 29 , 33 ], although a positive trend has been described [ 22 ].

However, they provided a positive trend in increasing inhibition zone of the β-lactamase-unstable antibiotics against MRSA when compared with antibiotics alone.

While 41 species showed a positive trend, four exhibited a negative one, and 19 showed no clear association.

Furthermore, even though no statistical differences or significant effect size were found, a positive trend was identifiable in all the RESMES subscales (except the “running” subscale).

We observed a positive trend between BMI and a UF diagnosis; obese participants had 1.5 times higher odds of a UF diagnosis compared to participants with a normal BMI (OR, 1.49; 95% CI, 0.87 to 2.56).

While health issues and salary levels did not reach statistical significance, both demonstrated a positive trend in their association with high stress levels.

Availability of material resources The participants agreed that, even though there was a positive trend, sometimes, health facilities were still experiencing stock-out of essential supplies, medicine and job-aids.

A systematic review of available evidence in the PubMed database on socioeconomic status (SES) and adherence to ARVs did not find a consistent association but noted a positive trend between higher levels of SES and adherence [ 35 ].

In general, the results indicate a positive trend by a slight (2%) increase in usage, from 51% in 2013 to 53% in 2015.

Additionally, the basis for a positive trend in adoption rates in control ICUs also remains in question.

Finally, a positive trend existed between being LTFU and self-identifying as heterosexual (1.83 [0.91–3.68], 0.088). 4.

There was a positive trend according to stage progression in serum TNC levels in control, stage 0–II, and stage III–IV pancreatic cancer patients (Fig. 3 b).

Conclusions In this study, we found that about two-thirds of FSWs used dual contraception indicating a positive trend towards safer sexual practices.

Two studies also examined total dietary fat and found no association, although one—a Swedish study of 525 men—reported a positive trend between total dietary fat and risk of PCSM among the subgroup of men diagnosed with localized PC (HR Q4 vs Q1 : 2.07; CI: 0.93, 4.59; p trend = 0.03) [ 14 , 16 ].

Because immigration follows a positive trend in the long run, it will start to rise again thereafter.

Conclusions: (i) Although several studies exist, the evidence does not clearly support a clinically meaningful and direct (independent from blood pressure) effect of Na on arterial wall stiffening; (ii) data regarding the association of dietary Na with arterial remodeling are limited, mostly suggesting a positive trend between dietary Na and arterial hypertrophy but still inconclusive; (iii) as regards to atheromatosis, data are scarce and the available studies present high heterogeneity.