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In Ethiopia, however, there was an increasing trend in modern contraception use over the years, irrespective of parity.

tb population of Patient A were similar overall to those from Patients D and E, but showed an increasing trend over the sampling period ( Fig 1 ).

1 ), all displayed an increasing trend in the sediment cores despite the high levels of arsenic.

marneffei infections are found in patients with autoantibody against interferon-γ with an increasing trend [ 11 , 12 , 13 ].

The burden of hypertension as assessed by both casual BP readings and ABPM showed an increasing trend with higher stages of CKD [ Figure 1 ].

1.2 of Mohebbi’s study shows an increasing trend of the CF rate during recent years among young children in Tehran.

In our study, the soil water holding capacity in the restored wetlands presented an increasing trend with restoration time, approaching to that in the undisturbed natural wetland.

The expression rate of BMI-1 in normal vulvar, VIN and VSCC tissues was 0.0, 25.0 and 68.0% respectively, demonstrating an increasing trend in the severity of the disease.

An increasing trend in FFA values can be observed after 12 days of storage.

An increasing trend in the incidence and mortality rates of bladder cancer has been noted in the past 30 years ( 2 ).

Chinese agriculture produces approximately 620 Tg of crop straw every year, with an increasing trend of an annual rate of 1.4% 17 , and approximately 25% of the straw is currently returned to the field 18 .

AvTD was constant from 30°, although PE maintained an increasing trend in high latitude areas.

In the past few years, an increasing trend in the antibiotic resitance imparted by E. coli and K. pneumoniae isolates has been observed.

In the present study, we found that, compared with the FVH group, serum triglyceride levels in the females demonstrated an increasing trend in the FVN group, whereas in the males, these levels were decreased in the MVN group comparing with the MVH group.

Compared with the pure ZnO NRs (AZ1-C), there was an increasing trend in dye-loading capabilities of the AZO samples with increasing Al injection concentration.

Recently there has been an increasing trend at some centers to perform the single stage transanal endo-rectal pull through (TEPT) in selected cases.

The reconstruction ( Fig 2b ) calibrated by signal decomposition and synthesis method (new method in this study) shows an increasing trend with annual and decadal variations for 1850–2001.

We found an increasing trend of plant biomass in montane forests, but not in lowland forests, as well as a greater increase in NO emission in montane forest compared with lowland forest.

Seropositivity of HIV, HBsAg, HBcAb, syphilis showed a significant decreasing trend ( P <0.05) while there was an increasing trend in HCV infection which was insignificant.

Nakamura 1 1 Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan Contact E-mail Address: [email protected] Introduction: In Japan and most other developed nations, the prevalence of Crohn’s disease (CD) is on an increasing trend.

Furthermore, we also found an increasing trend in the percentage of tumor cells with MET gene copy number ≥3 together with higher MET IHC score, suggestive of a relationship between MET gene copy number increase and MET protein overexpression.

2 shows that Thailand and Bangladesh have experienced an increasing trend of total CO 2 emission and per capita emission over time, while a fluctuating trend was observed in the case of Japan.

An increasing trend was observed for the contents of 32 volatile compounds during the growth stage of pomelo flowers, and a decreasing trend was observed for the content of 20 volatile compounds.

The Amur tiger is a priority target for conservation; its population has shown an increasing trend and distribution range has increased rapidly during recent years.

An increasing trend in PCB levels from the upper stream to the Nile estuaries was observed.