“an increasing trend”

In addition to the absence of an increasing trend in incidence of melanoma of the eye, we found no association between this cancer and cellular phone use in our ongoing cohort study of over 420 000 users of mobile telephones between 1982 and 1995 ( Johansen et al , 2001 ).

We found no evidence for an increasing trend in breast cancer risk with increasing duration of statin use (median duration 1.8 years, maximum 8.6 years).

A number of studies have demonstrated elevated cellular activity of c-Src, the prototypic member of the Src family of protein tyrosine kinases, during colorectal tumour progression, with an increasing trend from adenomas through to malignant carcinomas and metastases ( Bolen et al , 1987 ; Cartwright et al , 1989 , 1990 , 1994 ; Talamonti et al , 1993 ; Termuhlen et al , 1993 ).

In conclusion, the detection of uPA–PAI-1 complexes inside the tumour cells in early (T1) breast cancers expressing progesterone receptors is associated with a significantly higher incidence of axillary metastasis, and this might be of clinical value at the present time, where there exists an increasing trend towards avoiding axillary dissection at all in the presence of very small breast cancers with clinically negative axillae.

• Laparoscopic surgery The change in nomenclature from leiomyosarcoma to GIST and the advent of Imatinib has changed the general perception of these tumours to be of benign nature, and there is an increasing trend towards laparoscopic treatment [ 20 , 21 ].

An increasing trend in distress score was associated with an increase in education and with increasing income, for both instruments.

Although, interventions to improve TB services in public facilities are more likely to benefit a large proportion of TB patients in this setting, recently, there has been an increasing trend of patients attending private facilities [ 18 - 20 ].

Similar to his cognitive results, the patient's intra-treatment rate of development showed an increasing trend compared to his pre-treatment rate of development, with many T3 rates of development at or exceeding age expectations (e.g., Memory for Faces, Blocks).

Consistent with this trend, there was an increasing trend in the number of HCV-related deaths from liver cancer in Scotland over the period 1996–2005 ( Palmateer et al , 2007 ).

In panels 10A and 10B, the exponents exhibit an increasing trend with body mass.

The behavior of the time series tends to reverse itself, for instance, a decreasing trend in the past usually implies an increasing trend in the future and conversely, an increase in the past is likely to be followed by a decrease.

The estimated SSMD values (denoted by the green points) all fall around the population values of SSMD (denoted by the orange lines) and do not have an increasing trend as sample size increases (Panels A3 and B3 of Figure 2 ).

In each of the years assessed, BD prevalence showed an increasing trend with higher categories of TTHM exposure, with the exception of 2001 ( Table 3 ).

Then, the positive surface charge of the complexes exhibited an increasing trend corresponding to the rising N/P ratio, indicating that more and more siRNAs were compacted with CS- g -(PEI- b -mPEG) and the negative charge was neutralized.

Some countries showed only an increasing trend in girls while in boys some stabilization was observed.

The prevalence showed an increasing trend with increasing age and peaked around 11–13 years then started to decline.

This shows overall (over the period 1990–2005) an increasing trend for both countries.

The reduced Np(OH) 4 species is likely to sorb (or precipitate) much more strongly than the oxidized species, which is consistent with our observations of an increasing trend of Np K d with decreasing Eh for devitrified tuff in J-13 water (Figure 3 ).

An analysis of studies reporting the frequency of detection of Blastocystis from North American laboratories suggests an increasing trend that began after 1988, followed by a reducing trend that began around 2000 (see Appendix A in additional file 1 ).

We also observed an increasing trend in the univariate analysis, but it disappeared after adjustment for other covariates.

A recent large cohort study in Sweden reported a trend of declining incidence for synchronous bilateral cancer, similar to unilateral breast cancer, but an increasing trend for metachronous bilateral cancer ( Hartman et al , 2007 ).

Stomach and colon cancers and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma showed an increasing trend with the number of admissions, whereas a reverse trend was noted for lung cancer.

The percentage of unmarried women aged 21–29 years who had ever been pregnant has shown an increasing trend from 53% in 1996 to 67% in 2005 (p for trend = 0.357, p for change in trend = 0.252).

There is an increasing trend for those who pay for surgical interventions, such as total hip replacement, to want to use simple scoring systems in order to 'triage' patients as suitable or unsuitable for surgery.

Management of post-partum HELLP syndrome In most women with a HELLP syndrome, the maternal PLT counts continue to decrease immediately post-partum with an increasing trend on the third day [ 6 ].