“an increasing trend”

Notably, osteopontin levels exhibit an increasing trend in cell lines that represent the continuum of prostate cancer progression (from androgen sensitive to CRPC) and correlate with a higher Gleason score, reduced survival [ 130 ], and metastatic tendencies [ 53 , 131 ].

Currently, an increasing trend in the prevalence of overweight and obesity can also be seen in developing countries due to the process of urbanization and the popularization of unhealthy lifestyles [ 3 ].

The vector’s orientation, which describes the variable in factor space, indicates an increasing trend in these variables.

While the fish were swimming at 0.4 BL·s −1 , the critical oxygen tension showed an increasing trend with temperature.

Finally, teneligliptin showed an increasing trend in the number of EPCs, albeit this did not reach statistical significance.

We would like to mention that routine blood tests carried out on our COVID-19 patients did not demonstrate an increasing trend in RDW or MCV.

Over the past few years, we have observed an increasing trend of publications on radiomic approaches in oncology [ 11 ], especially for predicting diagnosis [ 12 , 13 , 14 ] and treatment response [ 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 ], as well as tumor molecular profiles [ 20 , 21 ].

Measuring SNR in 1 mm vessels was particularly challenging, but an increasing trend in detectability was observed.

Advances in obstetric and neonatal medicine, such as the routine application of antenatal steroid courses, exogenous surfactant replacement therapy, and gentler mechanical ventilation strategies, have led to the improved survival of extremely premature infants, and there is an increasing trend toward offering initial life support to infants born at the lower limits of viability [ 11 ].

The AD percentages were 12%, 27%, 32%, 36%, and 38% within 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 years follow up periods, respectively, with an increasing trend. 3.2.

During the entire process, the L* values of the fermented lamb jerky in all groups exhibited an increasing trend.

Furthermore, there was an increasing trend in the SpO 2 /FiO 2 value from day 1 to day 7 of life in the patients of the study group ( Table 3 ).

Hungarian consumption is lower than this, but shows an increasing trend.

The most recent available data from a systematic review and meta-analysis of 80 studies from the Eastern Mediterranean Region (including Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, and the UAE) reported a pooled ASR of 37.1 per 100,000 person-years (95% confidence interval (CI), 34.5, 39.8) during 2011–2019 and an increasing trend between 2005 and 2019.

This study draws attention to an increasing trend and the extremely high NSSI prevalence rate among community adolescents.

Although there were no significant differences between the two groups, the incidence of mucous plugging, pulmonary consolidation, atelectasis, and pleural effusion in the PCD group showed an increasing trend ( Figure 3 .

The Ghana Health Service annual report for 2016 reported an increasing trend of the third dose of Penta 3 vaccine.

With increasing salt stress time, the total chlorophyll content showed an increasing trend ( Figure 7 B), but the net photosynthetic rate, Fv/Fm, stomatal conductance, intercellular CO 2 content, and transpiration rate ( Figure 7 A,C–F) showed a decreasing trend.

However, there was a decreasing trend in the ASMR for males, while females showed an increasing trend ( Table 1 ). 3.1.3.

At the same time, our histomorphological analysis of prostates in rats revealed several distinctive alterations, containing an increasing trend in the epithelial height of DLP, pronounced deformation and extrusion of glandular lumens, and a concomitant reduction in the dimensions of glandular cavities.

The results show an increasing trend after seven days of exposure in the gills according to the different tested Ox-MWCNTs concentrations, except for bivalves exposed to 0.5 mg of Ox-MWCNTs·L −1 .

Latent growth modeling results revealed a significant linear decrease in adolescents’ exercise time and subjective well-being each year, while smartphone dependency exhibited an increasing trend.

An increasing trend emerged from the SF-36 and WHOQOL-BREF surveys.

Net migration (the number of migrants minus the number of emigrants) in the UK has an increasing trend [ 31 ].

In fact, 6 months after surgery, nNO levels showed an increasing trend, although not statistically significant, as if nasal mucosa was gradually recovering in a re-epithelialization process.