“an increasing trend”

As for organismal systems, the relative abundances of the genes involved in the immune system, endocrine system, and circulatory system at the 25 ppm ammonia level significantly increased compared with those in the other groups and showed an increasing trend in the digestive system and excretory system with increasing gaseous ammonia levels.

Although the interquartile ranges of the reduced scattering coefficient spectra overlap, an increasing trend during the involution process can be observed for μ s ′ ( λ ) in the areola and a decreasing trend in the nonareolar region.

Moreover, fengycin produced an increasing trend of CHI transcripts from 24 to 72 h post-treatment, which was opposite to the decreasing trend detected in the iturin A treatment.

We report the following principle findings in patients with cardiac AL amyloidosis: (1) Prolonged QTc (≥483 msec) and abnormal QRS axis showed significant incremental prognostic values in addition to revised Mayo stage; (2) ECG scores which were assigned by presence of prolonged QTc (≥483 msec) and abnormal QRS axis, showed good associations with the mean absolute values of LV GLS and regional LS; and (3) mean values of Log NT-proBNP differed significantly according to ECG score and showed an increasing trend as ECG score increased.

Further, the yield of lamb has reached 4.92 million tons with an increasing trend ( Meng and Zhang, 2018 ).

However, the LDL-C levels displayed an increasing trend as the IGF-1 SDS increased when the IGF-1 SDS was less than − 2, but the difference was not statistically significant (β 0.08, 95% CI -0.02, 0.17; P = 0.119).

There was an increasing trend of prevalence of nephrotoxicity across follow-up months, however, the number of patients monitored for nephrotoxicity using serum creatinine against treatment months was decreasing.

In terms of time evolution, Figure 3C depicts an increasing trend in the number of publications after 2010.

However, only brain tissue was observed to have an increasing trend in the expression of HIF2α in response to acute high thermal stress, which indicated that different types of HIF-αs have different functions.

The outcome of biomass ratio by APSIM against increased CO 2 concentration showed an increasing trend with the highest response at the Lind compared to the irrigated one (Moses Lake).

As shown, prevalence of cigarette smoking has had an increasing trend until the age of 45 years old and then the prevalence of cigarette consumption has slowly decrease after the age of 45 years old.

Its recreational use has led to an increasing trend in the occurrence of major acute cardiovascular events as stroke, epilepsy, acute myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, and arrhythmia.

The body weight of the foxes fed with the probiotic mixture did not show an increasing trend (Fig. 1 b).

Regarding necrotic cells, there is also an increasing trend from 11.12% up to 39.48% under the effect of cadmium chloride.

Many studies have found an increasing trend of hospital acquired MRSA infection. 6 Our study also found a high incidence of hospital acquired MRSA infection.

There is an increasing trend towards higher maternal age at first pregnancy. 1 , 2 As maternal age at pregnancy increases, the number of women in childbearing age presenting with severe comorbidities is also rising. 3 , 4 Epidemiological transitions in public health have led to a shift from a communicable model of disease to an increasing incidence and prevalence of noncommunicable diseases at younger ages.

An increasing trend of OS incidence was observed for females at younger ages, raising the question whether the earlier exposure to estrogen (due to the earlier puberty) could be involved with this shift.

The spatial patterns of the loading vector and corresponding time series showing an increasing trend indicate that the first mode is associated with widespread warming (Fig. 1a,d ).

The variation in the band gap energies is attributed to the different elements on the nucleobases, with an increasing trend from G, A, T, to C.

There was a trend of decreasing number of cases in the recent years or decades in APSGN, HSP and childhood asthma, whereas an increasing trend was noted in APN, compared to the past years or decades ( Figure 2 ).

Hodgins et al 11 investigated the epidemiology of ulnar collateral ligament reconstructions in the state of New York and found that although the mean age for surgery was 21.6 years, there was an increasing trend for surgical treatment among patients aged 17 and 18 years.

For the number of new enrollment each year, it showed an increasing trend from 2005 to 2008.

The liver had an increasing trend of CRP expression post-Roundup treatment when compared to vehicle-treated group ( Figure 4 ).

SOD activity was significantly (one-way ANOVA, P < 0.01) increased in the SL group compared to the CK group, and an increasing trend was seen throughout the experiment ( Figure 5A ).

Differences in the male to female IRR were greatest for non-Hispanic black youth, with an increasing trend between 1975 to 1987 and 1998 to 2006, followed by a declining trend in the male to female IRR from 2007 to 2016.