“an increasing trend”

Background The discovery of adrenal incidentalomas due to the widespread use of sophisticated abdominal imaging techniques has resulted in an increasing trend of adrenal gland specimens being received in the pathology laboratory.

In general, hydro-meteorological hazards have shown an increasing trend in terms of occurrence and damage.

The morbidity of UC in Asia-Pacific area is lower than western countries, but has an increasing trend in the last few years.

In total, there were 309 notified DF cases imported from Thailand during the period 2000–2009, and there seems to be an increasing trend.

For rare species, landscape-level z -values exhibited an increasing trend with decline of patch number even in the stable phase.

hcp was expressed at a steady level throughout the entire 48 hours, whereas transcript levels of icmF showed an increasing trend from 12 to 48 hours ( Figure 6A ).

Mean scores of sleep latency in melatonin group decreased while it had an increasing trend in placebo group in the context of time, but no statistically significant differences were observed between the two groups in the study period.

In addition, for the MICS, carried out in 2000, the UN IGME used the indirect estimates based on reports of women aged 25–29 y and 30–34 y and excluded data from older women (motivated by poor data quality of the data derived from older women in this survey), while the IHME included the whole series, which shows an increasing trend in U5MR.

Considering the population structure in Iran where almost 31 million individuals are either in their middle age who will constitute the elderly population in the forthcoming two decades on one hand,[ 16 ] and the higher rates of dementia in old age on the other hand,[ 17 ] one can conclude that the prevalence of the disorder and its adverse effects will have an increasing trend for the next two decades.

7 , 8 In 1960s, an increasing trend in such abuses was observed.

They also found an increasing trend of urinary protein level among the subjects on usual treatment (0.12 g/day).

Stresses of the adjacent discs In general, compared with the intact model, the stresses on the disc at each segment of three surgical models showed an increasing trend in torsion and decreasing trends in other loading conditions, as shown in Table 9 .

This comparative approach has confirmed an increasing trend in microbial ecology: variable bacterial phylogenetic makeup is not mirrored in the relatively constant functional potential of the bacterial community in the environment [1] .

GLT-1 expression exhibited an increasing trend with time in the pre-treadmill group, and expression levels were significantly higher at 12, 24, and 48 h after treadmill training compared with that observed at 3 h ( p < 0.05).

There was an increasing trend in the number of occasions of service delivered when the students were present, and a statistically significant increase in the daily mean length of occasions of service delivered during the placement compared to pre-placement levels.

[4] There is also an increasing trend in facility deliveries.

The resources input and environmental emissions show an increasing trend in this period.

[ 116 ] found an increasing trend without significant changes in the activity of CAT in lung homogenates of rats that stayed up to 21 d at 5,500 m.

For understanding of older adults’ mental health, the IG showed an increasing trend after the intervention while the CG showed a decreasing trend (Fig. 3 ).

To further explore whether this pattern is significant, a trends analysis was carried out to investigate whether or not said cross-over effect is significant, by assigning appropriate weights for the comparison reflecting a pattern in which going from happy to sad music should lead to a decreasing trend in accuracy of recall of happy faces, but an increasing trend in accuracy of recall of sad faces.

Discussion An increasing trend was observed in pediatric publications from Iran in PubMed indexed journals between 1975 and 2007, with a sharp increase following the year 2002.

Pairwise interactions show very high cooperation levels with an increasing trend (see below for a discussion of similar, earlier results 17 , 18 ) whereas for the rest of groups we find that cooperation decays from initially large values (around 60% or larger) much in the same way as in most Public Goods or networked IPD experiments.

On the other hand, although the change of NICD expression in the DRG was not statistically significant compared with the sciatic nerve and spinal cord, there was an increasing trend.

The average blood ammonia levels were significantly different among the pre- and post-TIPS patients in each period, showing an increasing trend of median 8-day follow-up (30.30 ±24.28 μmol/L) < pre-TIPS (35.13±23.19 μmol/L) < median 3-month follow-up (65.02±35.15 μmol/L) (one-way analysis of variance, F = 3.75, P = 0.04), with significant difference between median 3-month follow-up and other groups (post-hoc test), but without significant difference between 8-day follow-up and pre-TIPS ( P = 0.65).

However, for younger cohorts, born after 1929-1938 (C1934), a horizontal and sometimes even an increasing trend could be discerned.