“an increasing trend”

The World Health Organization (WHO) projected that there is an increasing trend of tobacco use in developing countries ranging from 4.9 million in 2000 to more than 10 million by 2020 [ 1 ].

The amount of PKVA during landing showed an increasing trend from the forward to the lateral direction ( Figure 3 ).

Meanwhile, an increasing trend in the prevalence of obesity in Korean men might be one of the reasons of recently increased prevalence of hypo-HDL-cholesterolemia in men [ 28 ].

Sputum eosinophilia and AHR showed an increasing trend with an increased number of positive test responses to perennial allergens ( Table 5 ); however, there was no relationship with an increased number of sensitized seasonal allergens.

However, an increasing trend in the level of gene expression during the first 2 weeks after pollination and a decrease in the level of mRNA thereafter, both in the Zorro and Disco cultivars (Fig. 3a , b), were common features to all three examined TrcCs .

The increasing seabird haul catch rate may partly be due to an increasing trend in the mean number of albatrosses attending vessels during hauling: The mean number of albatrosses attending vessels during hauling was significantly explained (i.e., was temporarily confounded) by year, increasing at a rate of 1 albatross within 137 m of the vessel during hauling per year when the series is fit to a simple linear regression model (p<0.05, R 2 = 0.46).

3 shows the prevalence rate of recurrent FS that has had an increasing trend during 1995 till 2010.

In spite of an increasing trend in vaccine coverage rates in many countries, the effect of vaccination among the elderly in reducing hospitalization and mortality remains controversial.

However, when cases with bacteremic pneumococcal CAP are stratified according to age and severity of illness, HIV-infected persons have been found to have a significantly higher mortality with an increasing trend as the CD4 cell count decreases [ 14 ].

As a function of the external magnetic field, T E ( B ) shows an increasing trend with several steps.

There was an increasing trend in caesarean sections from 18% in 1997 to 26% in 2009.

Annual mean concentrations of fungicides showed an increasing trend after sampling station S 3 which is situated after the effluent of wastewater treatment plant of Agrinio city for each separate year of sampling period.

A cross-sectional study showed significantly elevated serum levels of certain cytokines (TNFα, IL-6, IL-7, IL-10, IL-18) and an increasing trend for serum IFNγ levels in symptomatic subjects when compared to asymptomatic subjects prior to treatment with ART ( 20 ).

The estimate of the slope of the trend is calculated as: (6) A positive value of B means an increasing trend whereas a negative value means a decreasing trend.

Studies indicated an increasing trend in childhood obesity over time.

At the time of the Great East Japan Earthquake on 11 March 2011, influenza A (H3N2) was still circulating, and there was an increasing trend of influenza B toward April 2011, both nationwide [ 13 ] and in the affected areas [ 14 , 15 ].

We compared microbiopsy devices with varying roughness amplitudes (R A ) and observed an increasing trend in total DNA extracted with increasing R A ( Figure 3a ) (n=20 for 5.36 R A and n=5 for 0.92 and 1.32).

Considering the general trend of the previous results [18] , [28] together with our result, it appears certain that there is an increasing trend of wind drift factor with increasing wind speed (although their results [18] , [28] were based on the measurements by buoys), and Figure 10 and improved accuracy can be justified as a preliminary result.

[ 25 ] found that the positive expression rates of ROCK1 expression in normal tissue, dysplasia and gastric carcinoma showed an increasing trend and were correlated with tumor lymph node metastasis and TNM stage, Majid et al.

Different from NP1EO that the concentration showed an increasing trend along the whole experiment course, other homologues all showed a peak value.

The resistance rate to clarithromycin in this study was 15.3% and is comparable with the other studies from Aslani et al ., (14%), Siavoshi et al ., (14.5%), Mohammadi et al ., (16.7%), and Mirzaei et al ., (14.6%).[ 17 18 19 20 ] However, the resistance rate to clarithromycin in our study was higher than those reported by Sirous et al ., (0%), Fallahi et al ., (4.16%), and Khashei et al ., (6.25%);[ 2 13 21 ] and lower than those reported by Falsafi et al ., (21%), Haghi Tomatari et al ., (23%), and Kargar et al ., (22.6%).[ 9 14 22 ] It showed an increasing trend in Isfahan (15.3%).

There is an increasing trend in both the fasting serum glucose and insulin levels towards the high-dose treated group but the data are not statistically significant (Fig/1C–D).

Although statistically not significant, an increasing trend with salinity was observed in the normalized luminosity index for Nka in the AI and PI ( Table 1 ).

coli infected broilers, though an increasing trend was observed.

However, the terms 'major complication' and 'minor complication' showed an increasing trend from 2004 to 2009, from 7% to 31% and from 7% to 30%, respectively.