“a worrying trend”

The study highlights a worrying trend toward a sedentary lifestyle and excessive food consumption, which is potentially intensified by a decrease in physical activity and poor dietary regulation.

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

Charlton, M.D., from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, who in 1996 in the Journal of the Royal College of Physicians in London , summed up the state of population-based epidemiology: There is a worrying trend in academic medicine which equates statistics with science, and sophistication in quantitative procedure with research excellence.

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 global prevalence of NAFLD has soared dramatically from 1990 to 2021, a worrying trend further reflected in the increasing incidence of NAFLD among young individuals aged 15–39.

These findings reveal a worrying trend: the pandemic significantly delayed recurrence diagnosis and was associated with an increased risk of death after recurrence.

Conclusions: Our study highlights a worrying trend in increasing obesity and hypertension, most likely associated with increasingly poor diet and reduced participation in exercises.

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.

Between April and June 2020 ( 30 ), according to a recent survey ( 31 ), a worrying trend of routine vaccination delays was observed in Italy, likely driven by fears of contact with COVID-19 cases at vaccination centers, issues with vaccination centers' logistics and lack of information.

Scenarios of mode shift from walking and cycling to 2W present a worrying trend of fatalities if growth in 2W ownership continues to replace existing trips of walking and cycling.

C ONCLUSION There is a worrying trend of increased accidents and serious injuries related to PMD use from the year 2014 to 2017.

The WHO estimated that over 90% of DM cases are Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) and have predicted a worrying trend for T2DM in the future [ 5 ].

Although this is not unique to Sierra Leone, it reflects a worrying trend in the cascade since more than 20% of those who tested positive still left the cascade.

By contrast, the tendency to an increase in overweight and obesity represents a worrying trend.

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.

It's a worrying trend because, down the line, they might face serious health issues they never saw coming.

Incidence is still rising, and there is a worrying trend of increasing incidence in young adults aged 30–39 years [ 2 ].

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