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There was also an increasing trend in their concern about losing the pregnancy (from 37 to 66 %) from first to subsequent pregnancies.

There was an increasing trend in serum NGAL levels over the first two tertiles (Figure 5 ).

Patients with diabetes displayed an increasing trend of hospitalizations between 1996 and 2009 with a 4% annual increase.

This reflects an increasing trend, particularly among younger adults, nationwide as well as in other countries, including Canada, the UK, Germany, and Switzerland. 38 56 57 58 While there is no definitive explanation for this trend, conjectures include expansion of indications for these procedures and advances in implant technology. 37 38 56 Implications Our findings indicate that expanded insurance coverage has considerable potential for amelioration of disparities related to race and income in use of elective surgery at the national level in the US.

In general, the GP73 level showed an increasing trend with the progression of liver disease.

The positive rate and level of SEB-specific IgE in CRSsNP group showed an increasing trend but did not reach significance (P=0.06 and P=0.069, respectively).

Review of patients’ records from 2003-2013 showed that the prevalence of addiction has had an increasing trend until 2004 and then has declined for 2 years and later took a rising trend again in 2013.

Results Number and occurrence rate of MAEs The number of MAEs exhibited an increasing trend during the first half-year of 2011 to the first half-year of 2012.

The error rate in the standard trials was larger in the fatigue state with an increasing trend, but without significant difference.

We have found an increasing trend in leishmaniasis as first diagnosis hospitalization rates from 1997 to 2011, although this trend was statistically significant only for non-HIV cases.

Introduction Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer death all over the world, with a 5-year overall death rate of 10%~15% in an increasing trend [ 1 ].

An increasing trend of the values was observed.

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.

Silt content showed an increasing trend from the 1 st inlet to 2 nd outlet positions.