“a worrying trend”

has envisioned in their perspective 121 , there is a worrying trend towards proprietary algorithms which are opaque, and the developers are “reluctant to transparently report” model details.

Discussion & conclusions While Canada may be praised for its public provision of maternity care, mothers' reports of gaps in care during the early postpartum period and increasing use of private doulas is a worrying trend.

12 A worrying trend revealed in a study by Zhou et al. 13 has been that current approaches to scale-up of LLMs are resulting in them becoming less reliable and the authors called for “a fundamental shift in the design and development of general-purpose artificial intelligence, particularly in high-stake areas”.

This was a worrying trend as unvaccinated children were found to be twice as likely to get hospitalised as compared to vaccinated children ( 9 ).

However, emerging epidemiological data show a worrying trend: Caries rate is stagnating or even increasing in some population groups notwithstanding the regular use of fluoride toothpastes in these countries. 7 8 9 10 In the era of holistic dentistry and after fluoride has been classified as a chemical neurotoxicant, some safety concerns arose regard

Both 11–14 and 15–17 year-olds logged multiple energy drink ads, a worrying trend given the established health risks of these products during adolescence ( 54 ).

This is a worrying trend which is possibly due to a combination of diabetes disease progression with time, and a lack of compliance and adherence with the treatment and lifestyle changes [ 54 , 56 – 58 ].

The increased HIV seroprevalence in older women and men may represent a cohort effect (i.e., the higher prevalence in younger women in the 1997 survey are now reflected in the cohort almost 10 years older), or could alternatively demonstrate a worrying trend towards increased HIV seroconversion in this age group.

The increase in insomnia symptoms in the current study is a worrying trend.

Recent nutritional surveys (2019–2020) confirm a worrying trend: anemia rates sharply increased for pregnant women (from 60% to 78%) and children under five (from 28.4% to 50.1%) during that period.

The epidemics and increasing incidence since 2017 indicate a worrying trend of intensified malaria transmission in an archipelago previously on track to achieving malaria elimination.

Results A sustained increase in the prevalence of obesity was observed for men, but not for women, although the last two years of the study period could indicate a worrying trend that should be monitored in the future.

Since 2016, this phenomenon has become a major concern, with a worrying trend of casualties.

1599) describes a worrying trend in science: “reputation based on discovery is no longer the currency.” Although Lazebnik (2015 , p. 1599) mentions several causes, he also mentions how scientists are now frequently assessed by “the number of papers published, the number of citations, citation indexes, impact factors, formulas to calculate their relative values.” Such criteria are not per se wrong, but they are one-sided.

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR UNIVERSITIES For universities, a worrying trend noted in this review is that despite transformations in the doctorate implemented to meet new government expectations, doctoral researchers’ perception of their student experience and their employability remains stubbornly negative, as described above.

Studies suggest that men may benefit from social support structures that boost their confidence in managing infertility challenges, while women do not receive similar reinforcement, leading to a worrying trend where female infertility is linked to greater psychological distress.

The findings point to a worrying trend of physical inactivity among adults, which has increased by about 5 percentage points between 2010 and 2022.

Conclusions In today’s over-technological world full of various stressors, living in a polluted environment, food substitutes and a sedentary way of working, the proportion of civilization diseases is rising sharply, and a worrying trend of exponential growth in cancer can be seen.

High prevalence of obesity in school going children is a worrying trend and portends of future increase in obesity related diseases.

The simultaneity of risk behaviours reveals a worrying trend of increasing risk with age, highlighting the need for preventive interventions throughout adolescence.

A worrying trend is the increased prevalence of non-nucleoside RT inhibitor (NNRTI) related mutations in newly diagnosed patients [ 3 , 5 ], as single NNRTI mutations, such as the frequently observed K103N mutation, can result in high levels of resistance against first generation NNRTIs [ 6 ].

A worrying trend was seen in the adaptation of malaria vector species to the urban environment.

We observed a worrying trend of increased resistance of gut colonizers over time.

The worldwide emergence of colistin-resistant strains of animal origin is a worrying trend, as colistin is considered a last-line antibiotic [ 36 ].

However, the disaggregated picture shows a worrying trend, especially for those who are illiterate or are living in abject poverty.