“an increasing trend”

There indeed seems to be an increasing trend in medication use but adding calendar year to the models to take this into account did not change the results reported here.

Developing societies experience an increasing trend in the prevalence of MS with rising affluence and ageing of the population.

Most cases were diagnosed with moderate differentiated general with an increasing trend.

Although the prevalence of alcohol use among Chinese students was lower than certain western countries, an increasing trend has been observed in the past decades, as could be explained by a number of interconnected reasons.

Most cases were diagnosed in moderate differentiated state with an increasing trend.

In our study, serum IL-1β, IL-4 and IFN-γ showed an increasing trend after Brazilian green propolis treatment in aged mice and meanwhile, some immunological parameters were also improved.

In fact, the three rounds of the National Family Health Survey showed an increasing trend in the use of these methods at the national level 15 16 17 (from 4.3% in 1992-93 to 7.8% in 2005-06).

Said et al 19 have reported an increasing trend of oligoasthenoteratozoospermia from mild to moderate to severe with respect to addiction of tobacco chewing.

In turn, there was an increasing trend in obesity with increasing snacking albeit non-significant, data not shown. 3.2.

Children's admissions are showing an increasing trend after 2006.

There has been an increasing trend towards using these in clinical trials with comparison made to changes on radiographs [ 21 – 23 ].

It can be observed that, along all four directions, the PM 2.5 concentrations interpolated by the OK method almost first demonstrated an increasing trend and then gradually decreased, while those simulated by LUR model at the same local sites were relatively lower and stable at two ends but higher and fluctuated in the middle.

Higher expression of one of the key adipocyte specific transcription factors, C/EBPβ, was also measured in cells treated with DMIOA compared with non-treated control cells, and this is consistent with the findings of [ 7 ] where its expression level has been progressively increased after 24 hr of incubation, showing an increasing trend with incubation time.

As evident from distance calculation, we found that His443 interacts electrostatically with γ-phosphate group for first 5 ns which goes on an increasing trend thereafter till 50 ns ( Fig. 9 ) which supports the earlier studies by Hu et al .

However, WM T 1ρ in MCI subjects and both GM T 1ρ and WM T 1ρ in AD patients showed an increasing trend with age ( Fig. 3 ).

Then, both carbon isotope records show an increasing trend that is terminated by a negative peak in the late Chattian.

We also saw an increasing trend of higher satisfaction with the increase in duration of the consultations from 15 minutes to 20 minutes for residents and addition of a 15-minute buffer to the total allocated time for pediatricians’ consultations.

In the latter case, an increasing trend in mRNA expression was observed (in the ascending order of HBV < HCV < NVH); the differences between the HCV and NVH groups were statistically significant.

After the introduction of oscillator units, which produce pure sinusoidal current, there has been an increasing trend in the use of diathermy for making skin incisions.

Recently [ 43 , 55 ], ADC values of bone marrow water measured in calcaneus showed an increasing trend from healthy (ADC ≈ 4∗10 −11 mm 2 /s) to osteoporotic subjects (ADC ≈ 7∗10 −11 mm 2 /s) and a significant negative correlation between ADC and BMD values.

The proportion of latrines whose owners plan to empty them (60%) is considerably higher than the portion of latrines emptied to date (36%) pointing to an increasing trend of emptying rather than replacing full latrines.

Comparisons of buildings from Northern, Central and Southern European climatological regions show an increasing trend in infiltration in warmer climates [ 59 ].

We then introduced three simple criteria to reduce the number of monitoring stations: (1) retain the monitoring station if there were similarities between its data and average data of the group to which it belongs; (2) retain the station if its data showed higher concentrations; and (3) retain the station if the monitored concentration levels had an increasing trend.

Literature review suggests an increasing trend toward conserving the pregnancy in contrast to expedite delivery as was practised before.

Results COI estimates for 1996, 1999, 2002, 2005, 2008, and 2011 The COI was estimated at 96.1 billion yen in 1996, 110.6 billion yen in 1999, 131.7 billion yen in 2002, 133.4 billion yen in 2005, 145.5 billion yen in 2008, and 159.9 billion yen in 2011, indicating an increasing trend.