“an increasing trend”

There was an increasing trend in the overall number of patients in Ramadan period (n = 132, 45.4% versus n = 159, 54.6%), especially with duodenal ulcer (n = 48, 37.2% versus n = 81, 62.8%).

An increasing trend of RTC fatalities was found among four-wheelers.

In contrast, there is an increasing trend toward investigating chiral recognition in excited states.

Yet, the importance of obesity and overweight among children has not been accentuated as much until recently.[ 19 ] Overweight children and adolescents are at greater risk of being overweight as adults, and adults who are overweight are at higher risk of numerous health problems including hypertension, coronary heart disease, gallbladder disease, non-insulin dependent diabetes, and some cancers.[ 20 ] In Iran, an increasing trend in the prevalence of obesity has recently been documented in youth,[ 21 ] and adults.[ 9 ] Furthermore, it has been reported that the prevalence of metabolic syndrome among Iranian children is comparable to those in western societies.[ 22 ] A high prevalence of the hypertriglyceridemic waist phenotype among Iranian children has also been documented,[ 23 ] which could make them to cluster metabolic abnormalities.

Overall cervical cancer mortality has been declining, but the declining trends showed only for older women; younger women showed an increasing trend [ 1 ].

Over the study period, physicians were providing the majority of dermatological lectures within podiatry (n = 118), with nearly twice as many advertisements as Podiatrists (n = 60) although an analysis of frequency counts suggested an increasing trend for more Podiatrists delivering lectures (Figure 7 ).

Similarly, age-adjusted breast cancer incidence has shown an increasing trend in pre-menopausal women 7 .

I do not foresee that open access, online journals will totally replace the traditional print format in the immediate future, although this may be an increasing trend with time.

Gefitinib treatment worked for the suppression of tumor growth, whereas intestinal apoptosis was significantly frequent in the mice treated with a high dose of gefitinib (100 mg/kg b.w.), and also the treated mice exhibited an increasing trend in the level of plasma alkaline phosphatase, GOT, GPT and (total-, direct- and indirect-) bilirubin.

Conclusion We found an increasing trend of median CD4 counts among PLHIV presenting to ART centres in Karnataka, an indicator of enhanced and early access to HIV care.

The findings of the current study revealed a decreasing trend in the moral distress mean score in the intervention group, while there was an increasing trend in the control group after the intervention.

These rates show an increasing trend compared with that of the previous year [ 11 ].

The coefficient of the trend variable was positive, indicating an increasing trend in the total numbers of sharks per trip over the five-year study period.

This pathogen is very common in Latin America, responsible for 22% of BSI isolates but, according to the ARTEMIS DISK Global Antifungal Surveillance Study, its incidence worldwide has reached 4%–7% with an increasing trend. 18 C. krusei is another important pathogen among patients with hematologic malignancies, and among blood marrow transplant recipients, characterized by intrinsic resistance to fluconazole. 1 C. krusei accounts for 2%–5% of all Candida infections worldwide, having emerged in oncology patients u

While it is not the purpose of FAST to detect bowel or solid organ injuries, we noted an increasing trend in its use as a “rule out” test for intra-abdominal injury in selected low-risk patients.

During the three decades since 1980, SOM concentration in surface layer of soils in most cereal-based cropping systems followed an increasing trend (Table S1 in File S1 ) [ 7 , 24 - 26 ].

An increasing trend in the suicide rate is observed during the period from 2006 to 2010.

In China, an increasing trend was also reported in both urban and rural areas [24] .

Other causes are poor health awareness and education, lack of early screening programs, lack of governmental support, and social barriers [4] Countries with the most developed breast cancer registries have documented an increasing trend: rates in Japan, Singapore and Korea have doubled in the last 35 years, and rates in China have increased >30% in the past decade [5] .

In children with malnutrition, in addition with physical growth retardation, the prevalence of mental disorders, academic failure and decreased efficiency are very common and these children in further stages of life would not be able to achieve their appropriate physical and mental abilities.[ 9 10 ] On the other hand, the prevalence of obesity and overweight in many developed and developing communities has an increasing trend and they are of the important health problems in today's communities.[ 11 12 ] In many cases, adulthood obesity starts from childhood and effective prevention depends upon the way you cope with and control obesity in this age.

In addition, an increasing trend in serum VLDL triglycerides, serum total triglycerides, and in almost all of the VLDL subclasses was observed.

Previously we reported an increasing trend of subtype B strains from 0% of the total genotyped sequences in 2003 to 7.8% in 2007 ( Paraschiv et al., 2008 ).

There was an increasing trend in the number of publications from 4 articles in period 1975-1994 to more than 170 articles in 2010-2012.

aureus in tertiary hospitals of Korea is 60-70%, which is higher than the reports from previous studies [ 6 , 7 ], while with the increase in use of vancomycin for the treatment of MRSA, there is an increasing trend in vancomycin resistant isolates, such as VISA and VRSA.

Over time, the proportion of infections occurring in Gangwon-do decreased while those occurring in Incheon increased, and an increasing trend in the proportion of short incubation cases was observed ( Fig. 4 ).