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With regards to thyroid cancer, there has been an increasing trend of its incidence over the past decades worldwide; and this has been ascribed to the increasing prevalence of insulin resistance [10] .

Under this backdrop, an increasing trend of flooding events resulting from extreme precipitation can be observed in recent years [7] .

[16] , NSW demonstrated an increasing trend until 2005–2006, followed by a decreasing trend to 2009.

Nevertheless, the adhesion abilities within each strain were similarly disclosed with an increasing trend based on the glucose level treated to the bacteria (strain J99 on Figure 2 A and C; strain 43504 on Figure 2 B and D).

Current reports show an increasing trend of resistance to this antibiotic.

At a few sampling points, there were obvious soil water depletion (e.g., 67, 75, 85, and 94) and an increasing trend (top to bottom) of SWC (e.g., 12 and 36).

However, in Japan where the transmission of drug-resistant viruses has historically been low, there seems to be an increasing trend [18] , [26] .

Pattern of distribution of mutations across the HBV genome among different stages of liver diseases The prevalence of mutations, which were showing an increasing trend from nLF (no liver fibrosis) to HCC through LF (liver fibrosis) and LC (liver cirrhosis) is summarized in Table 3 .

Our observations of defective medicines recalls over nine consecutive years, from 2005 to 2013, have shown that the recall of substandard medicines is an increasing trend.

Previous studies showed that more oestrogen-type mucus is present in the fertile days of the menstrual cycle, but also an increasing trend in the amount of mucus secretions can be noticed.

A correlation analysis showed a negative correlation between the smoking index and the serum levels of let-7i-3p and miR-154-5p and that an increasing trend in the smoking index is associated with lower relative expression of let-7i-3p and miR-154-5p.

Although frequencies of tandem repeats of Glu, Pro and Leu showed an increasing trend in more complex organisms, the frequency increases were much smaller (Leu repeat, <2 fold in human over E. coli ) or inconsistent (Glu repeats), compared to those of Pro repeats ( Fig. 5C ).

From BC 1 to BC 3 , an increasing trend of boll setting and germination (%) was observed.

They were extracted from Scopus and ISI web of knowledge during period of 1/1/2009 to 30/5/2012. Results: There was an increasing trend in scientific productions from 2009 to mid-2012.

So far, there is little sign in our mortality data of such an increasing trend (data not shown), but it is obviously an area of interest and of global public health concern in the years to come.

However, the proportion of HIV-related deaths showed an increasing trend over the three periods.

Among the elderly population, neoplasm was more common among males and also had an increasing trend.

For histoplasmosis (B39), blastomycosis (B40), and paracoccidioidomycosis (B41), we found 27, 19, and 6 persons per year, respectively (0.054, 0.038, and 0.012 per 100,000 persons, respectively.) The prevalence showed an increasing trend by age, but no clear difference by sex was found ( Table 2 ).

For example, data from three wells (YC35-1-2, LS15-1-1, and ST36-1-1) drilled in the margin of the central depression reveals an increasing trend of TOC of the Miocene marine source rocks from the shallow to relatively deeper water ( Figure 3 ). 4.2.

Notified rates currently show an increasing trend, but the rise started later than in other countries: during the period 1995–2001 rates decreased sharply, from 11.7/100 000 to 2.0/100 000, but in 2002 the trend changed and the incidence has steadily increased to a rate of 5.1/100 000 in 2011 [ 6 ].

An earlier study based on analyses of 726 stations' data (1951–2004) in China showed an increasing trend of 0.39°C/10a in winter, 0.28°C/10a in spring, 0.20°C/10a in autumn and only 0.15°C/10a in summer [8] .

Other research has reported an increasing trend in off-label use of antipsychotics in the general US population, including, for example, prescribing of quetiapine for insomnia [ 11 ].

showed an increasing trend of TDRM prevalence from 2002 to 2009 due to an increase of TDRM to NRTIs and NNRTIs.

plement no pmc-prop-pdf-only no pmc-prop-suppress-copyright no pmc-prop-is-real-version no pmc-prop-is-scanned-article no pmc-prop-preprint no pmc-prop-in-epmc yes pmc-license-ref CC BY-NC Introduction Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is recognized as a serious global health burden with an increasing trend of incidence, estimated to represent the third most common cause of death worldwide by 2020. 1 Patients with COPD experience chronic cough, sputum production, and dyspnea at rest and during daily activities. 2 , 3 As the disease progresses, dyspnea on exertion limits physical activity and is associated with higher mortality. 4 In addition, reductions in physical activity have been observed even in mild cases. 5 Accordingly, an assessment of the limitations of physical activity is important for clinical management of patients with COPD.

Furthermore, there has recently been an increasing trend of non-farmer cases in Guangzhou; from 172 cases in 2006, to 689 cases in 2012.