“an increasing trend”

Although we find that admissions are similar before and after referral, the crucial difference is that A is an increasing trend and B is a decreasing trend.

The researchers say the effects of the bears’ dietary shift are large enough in the case of PCBs to offset an apparent trend of decreasing concentrations in western Hudson Bay bears over the study period and to significantly accelerate an increasing trend in PBDEs.

However, an increasing trend in prevalence of moderate-severe forms was observed in tertiary level perinatal centres.

BYM model for the whole Apulia : For males, internally standardized maps showed several high risk areas bordering the province of Lecce, belonging to the province of Brindisi, and the presence of a large high risk region, including the southern part of the province of Brindisi and the eastern and southern part of the Salento peninsula, in which an increasing trend in the north-south direction was found.

There is an increasing trend amongst the scientific community towards the use of primary tissues from normal and disease-affected patients for the association and fine mapping of genetic variants with quantifiable phenotypic traits.

Only male lung cancer did not show an increasing trend, the total number of survivors declining by 1.4% per year.

With literature indicating that open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) yields better results than conservative management, there has been an increasing trend towards operative intervention [ 3 - 6 ].

In the present study, we observed an increasing trend of enterococci concentration in the range of 2.3–4.4 × 10 1 CFU/100 mL, 1.0–1.2 × 10 3 CFU/100 mL, 6.7–7.7 × 10 4 CFU/100 mL, 4.4–5.1 × 10 4 CFU/100 mL and 7.8–8.7 × 10 5 CFU/100 mL at sites 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 respectively (Figure 1 ).

In this population we found an increasing trend of the prevalence of hypertension.

Clusters of counties in north-western and north-eastern Yunnan actually showed an increasing trend in incidence for P. vivax , albeit with very low overall SMRs.

Collectively, the evaluation frameworks to date demonstrated an increasing trend towards flexible, iterative evaluation designs that are user-, context-, and functionality-centric and that address multiple questions using multiple methods at each stage of the process.

In the last decade, however, a growing number of highly vaccinated countries, such as the US [3] , Canada [4] , France [5] and the Netherlands [6] , have reported an increasing trend in the general incidence of pertussis.

Systolic and diastolic blood pressures showed an increasing trend according to glucose tolerance.

Both GALF-G and MEME show an increasing trend of recalls as K increases.

90 , 91 An increased risk for fractures has been shown for doses above 5 mg/day within 3 to 6 months after initiation of OCS therapy, 78 , 89 and for doses of ≥10 mg prednisolone for less than 60 days with an increasing trend by time. 83 Vestergaard and coworkers also found an effect of lower doses within 60 days, but this effect did not last beyond 2 months, and was probably an effect of confounding by indication.

Dispersion of mutation load in the cells has an increasing trend amongst the three different mouse models with the POLG mut/mut mouse having the highest dispersion of mutant mtDNA states in the cells.

Conversely, an increasing trend in the pro-inflammatory cytokines was associated with higher mortality.

There, an increasing trend in body mass of passerines as an adaptation to global warming was assumed, although only six of 14 species showed significant trends in size through time, and not always consistently between two study sites.

There has also been an increasing trend for mixing heroin with cocaine to be smoked in this manner.[ 6 ] Although heroin and cocaine remain the most frequently abused drugs leading to ED visits, ED visits involving prescription narcotic analgesics increased 153% from 1995 to 2002.

The overall proportion of women with GDM was 4.31% (95% CI 2.31%–6.31%) for the period January 2005–December 2007 (see Table 1 ).The proportion of GDM patients for the years 2005, 2006, and 2007 were 1.67%, 4.58%, and 6.67%, respectively, indicating an increasing trend.

The use of innovative technologies to facilitate health teams’ working together is an increasing trend. 3 However, teams using technology to communicate must become fluent in the use of that technology to sustain and expand the benefits of effective interprofessional teamwork.

There is an increasing trend of medical litigation by unsatisfied patients.

Disease burden due to malaria as a proportion of all hospital admissions also generally shows an increasing trend, though not significant [ Table 2 ].

Background In recent decades low-income countries experienced an increasing trend in dental caries among children, particularly recorded in 12-year olds, which is the principal WHO indicator age group for children.

In another study( 9 ) conducted in a VCTC of a district hospital of Thailand, HIV prevalence was found to be 29%; it showed an increasing trend from 1995 to 1997 when the prevalence was 39%, which declined to 28% in 1999.