“an increasing trend”

There was an increasing trend from 1973–1997 in dissolved chloride and copper [39] .

Background In central European trauma centres there is an increasing trend towards focused assessment with computed tomography in trauma (FACTT) [ 1 , 2 ].

Most of the studies however, were conducted on western population and such studies on the Asians such as Koreans who show an increasing trend in the prevalence of NIDDM are limited.

There is an increasing trend to establish xenograft tumours directly from human cancers, to avoid artificial selection of cells in tissue culture and changes in gene expression and phenotype, which this may induce.

Results Demography of enrolled subjects An increasing trend in the hospital admissions of diarrhoea was observed from July to October, 2008 with a peak in October but during the following year 2009, it was during March to July with a peak in July (Fig. 1 ).

In keeping with Phillips' observations [ 5 ] an increasing trend in IR and PR with time was observed.

Serum potassium presented an increasing trend during the first 4 days of life, followed by a decrease in neonates with BPD compared to non-BPD neonates, even though the clinical intervention (supplementation with potassium) was not different between the two groups.

Rates of study completion showed an increasing trend across cohorts: 5/9 (56%) in cohort 1, 6/8 (75%) in cohort 2 and 20/23 (87%) in cohort 3.

For example, there is an increasing trend to house nurse anaesthesia programs in colleges or schools of nursing [ 16 ].

Background There is an increasing trend to investigate biomedical systems through the prism of Complexity Science, (as highlighted, for instance, by recent funding calls).

Serum levels of ANGPTL4 protein revealed an increasing trend within 2 weeks of colonization with F19 ( Figure 5A ).

Further, there was an increasing trend for the positive proportion and expression degree of hOGG1 and HK-2 from Control, Mild cervical carcinoma (MCC), Intermediate cervical carcinoma(ICC) to Severe cervical carcinoma(SCC) in order (P < 0.05).

For the prototype of SBC7, the malignancy scores show an increasing trend from normal ( y ( s ) = 1) to malignant samples ( y ( s ) = 4) along the ascending ordered gene expression levels, which results in a directional p-value of 5.35 × 10 -22 .

But, DPPH radical scavenging activity did not show an increasing trend at higher concentrations (4 and 8%).

This has led to an increasing trend towards 24-h ICU coverage by in-house intensivists in adult intensive care medicine [ 6 ].

There was an increasing trend in the number of previous quit attempts, an increasing trend in the opinion that smoking diminishes beauty, but no trend in the opinion that smoking makes someone attractive, and no trend in the assessment of the pictures as realistic.

Many of these records show an increasing trend in pollen concentration for important allergenic species such as birch ( Betula ) (e.g., Yli-Panula et al .

Peak A-wave (but not E-wave) velocity decreased and the E/A ratio showed an increasing trend, suggesting impairment in LV preload.

An increasing trend was also suggested by a nonparametric analysis conducted using a generalised additive model.

However, during the past decade the incidence has again shown an increasing trend in many developed countries with a shift in the incidence towards older age groups [1] .

Cervical insufficiency prevalence showed an increasing trend with increasing number of pregnancy terminations.

In women, blood pressure, triglycerides, BMI levels and prevalence of diabetes and antihypertensive treatment had an increasing trend from high to low levels of education.

We found that PFA1-immunized 17 month old female mice revealed a significant 34% increase in Aβ42 (p < 0.05), and an increasing trend (140%) in Aβ40, following treatment (Fig. 8A & 8B ).

In this case, for several previous transitions, an increment on the phase-shift average value implies an increasing trend in the future.

In the “rural remote” area there was an increase in non-AIDS mortality in both of ART period 1 and period 2 compared with the pre-ART period, but there was no evidence of an increasing trend in non-AIDS mortality within the time period following ART roll-out.