A worrying trend is that, since the late 1990s, the incidence of endometrial cancer has rapidly increased in several developing countries during urbanisation, including some Asian countries (Japan, Singapore, China and the Philippines) and South Africa. 2 It is suggested that this phenomenon may be explained, at le
This is prevalent in the East Africa region and highlights a worrying trend that requires urgent action in order to stem the rising antimicrobial resistance concerns in the region and other pernicious effects of self-medication such as masking of severe disease [ 70 – 72 ].
There is also a worrying trend towards identifying some patients as ‘untreatable’ including an emergent controversial discussion regarding whether palliative care is an appropriate treatment response in some ED cases [ 20 – 22 ].
This alongside our case demonstrates a worrying trend: so far, all documented cases of Legionnaire's disease in the UK have been fatal.
However, recent studies indicate a worrying trend of young-onset stroke, defined as stroke occurring in younger individuals (e.g. under 55 years of age) 2 , with the age of stroke onset shifting toward younger populations 3 , 4 .
Adjustment to account for the aging of the physician workforce, depicted as the gap between the sex-adjusted line and the uppermost age–sex-adjusted line, begins to show a worrying trend starting around 2005 that is relevant to policy.
This correlation points to a worrying trend: despite its detrimental impact on agriculture and the livelihoods of the rural population, the issue of stock theft continues to be inadequately addressed in South Africa (Aerni-Flessner et al. 2021 ; Lombard and Bahta 2019 ).
In a worrying trend the use of modes of death appear to be increasing.
Namely, with every generation of boys and girls after 1983, the distribution of PFI deviated from the normal one toward the bimodal distribution with pronounced extremes, which evidence about a worrying trend of increasing inequality and polarization of physical fitness development in recent cohorts.
This remains a worrying trend as reported in a recent survey [ 6 ].
These results show a worrying trend in the carbon footprint.
On the other hand, low levels of PA [ 12 ] and a sedentary lifestyle [ 13 ] have been associated with obesity in both children and adolescents; reaching the global prevalence of excess of weight is a worrying trend in the youngest population [ 14 ].
These are sizeable numbers and are a worrying trend as it proves that the tilapia is escaping from their ‘secure’ cages.
This could signal a worrying trend of rising tobacco consumption among younger women, possibly fuelled by shifting social norms and the increasing availability of alternative tobacco products. 2 7 This finding emphasises the urgent need to broaden public health efforts beyond cigarette smoking to include emerging tobacco forms popular with youth and young women.
However, a worrying trend of general dissatisfaction persists in Peruvian hospitals, as highlighted by Barrios (2021), who reported that 75% of patients in Lima expressed dissatisfaction with accessibility, particularly in primary care [ 16 , 17 ].
Given the resurgence of influenza in 2022, this represents a worrying trend as the typical Northern Hemisphere influenza season approaches.
However, a worrying trend is emerging as some people are adding various drugs to the tobacco mixture, which goes beyond the usual way of using both water-pipes or drugs and introduces a mix of different substances.
The increase in multimorbidity is a worrying trend among Brazilian women.
Increased consumption of antimicrobials at the health centre level compared with hospitals is a worrying trend that may be due to a lack of antibacterial stewardship, lower educational level of staff, poor prescribing practices or hesitancy to refer sicker patients to hospitals.
A worrying trend is the increase in the prevalence of the R622I k13 mutation, first reported in Ethiopia in 2015 [ 26 ].
In addition, our data reveal a worrying trend of resistance to quinolones, which is also consistent with the holding of ARGs in different mutation types.
tenuis -induced mortalities in livestock is a worrying trend in the age of climate change.
Our results also reveal a worrying trend regarding supervision: overall, it was rated better in 2008 (mean score = 7.1) than it was in our study (6.5).
Altogether, this highlights a worrying trend of ineffective current WTS policy, with current efforts towards curbing WTS use being unsuccessful in deterring students.
16 26 Concerning the adherence to the outlined preventive measures, including avoiding crowd, frequent washing of hands with detergents or disinfectants and the use of face coverings, we observed a worrying trend where the majority of the respondents admitted to not practicing these aforementioned public health guidelines with an increased odd of contracting the disease as a result (OR >1).