“a positive trend”

We found an inverse association of the severity of oral pathology but a positive trend of carotid artery stenosis with the amount of streptococcal DNA in thrombus aspirates of stroke patients.

In comparison, on Day 7, all treatment groups exhibited higher STT values compared to the KCS group, suggesting a positive trend in tear quantity, even though these differences were not statistically significant.

Our meta-analysis showed that HDL had a positive trend, which is statistically significant however it seems not to be interesting from a clinical perspective.

This decline can be attributed to the normalization of the COVID-19 pandemic, indicating a positive trend in healthcare management and containment efforts [ 43 ].

In contrast, the PDP for hemoglobin concentration, shown in Fig 13 for the training and testing datasets, respectively, illustrates a positive trend.

However, during these years, we observe a transition towards a positive trend in the Kakwani index to 0.003 and 0.005, respectively, which may be explained by household size and education level factors.

However, patients with postoperative SVA<40 mm showed a positive trend toward reaching MCID, suggesting a role of global sagittal balance in improving low back pain outcomes.

Although the effects of GE on PGT151 and PGT121 were relatively modest, there was also a positive trend.

2 The observed rise in EBM training participation suggests a positive trend in enhancing students’ familiarity with these crucial practices in medical education [ 15 ].

Conclusion Mexico’s performance on health-related SDGs indicators, while showing a positive trend as conditions are overall improving, is not enough to reach the 2030 commitments.

Responses to the postgame questionnaire ( Textbox 1 ) indicated a positive trend in participants’ opinions of and engagement with Masks, individual game sessions, and their comfort levels with other players and with the GMs.

However, the overall consistency of these preliminary results suggests a positive trend and warrants further study of MPFF in randomized, blinded, placebo-controlled clinical trials in patients recovering from such procedures.

All graphs in Figs 1 and 2 show a positive trend for grant succes rates for females and a (corresponding) negative one for males.

Unlike the current study, BKMR in our prior study did not show a positive trend for MCNP, though our previous study examined phthalates only.

The results indicated a positive trend for concordance between the two estimations across the entire sample.

Although current research shows a positive trend in internet use among older adults, particularly in reducing anxiety and depression, the risk of internet addiction remains a concern.

Both SDG 5 ( Gender equality ) and SDG 10 ( Reduction of inequalities ) displayed a positive trend in all eight countries during the 2000–2020 period.

The review highlighted a relative increase in the number of A-WASH interventions in SSA in the last seven years, representing a positive trend with stronger evidence for replicability of similar studies.

Data showed consistently a positive trend with the exception of one village community (C-3) which showed low density and high prevalence.

Finally, treatment success significantly improved over the years, with the highest odds ratios in 2021, 2022, and 2023, indicating a positive trend in treatment outcomes over time.

Although the associations were null, we observed a positive trend among males and a negative trend among females.

IL-6 was available in a subset of patients and showed a positive trend with IMT (Spearman’s ρ ≈ 0.30).

The objective of this study is to determine if previous findings of higher frequency of PPARA 7C allele in power/strength-oriented athletes would be supported by a positive trend to superior speed and power performance in a group of elite ice hockey players.

We also observed a positive trend with the prevalence of the vegetarians having increased from 0·5 % at the beginning of the study to 1·2 % at the end.

Figure 1 a–c show a positive trend demonstrating that ML and MVDA are becoming more utilised in the biopharmaceutical sector.