“an increasing trend”

It is interesting that our data showed an increasing trend in self-reported cognitive impairment in adults aged 60 or older.

The positive association between bladder cancer and BMI showed an increasing trend beyond the reference BMI.

In addition, its incidence shows an increasing trend year by year.

In addition, incidence of GDM showed an increasing trend ( 10 , 11 ), seriously affecting the health of mothers and children.

In recent years, with the gradually increased incidence of diabetes, number of patients with diabetes and SAH also showed an increasing trend.

The demographic structure of shea parklands in the study area exhibited an increasing trend in tree density, species diversity, and regeneration along the linear progression from farmland to old fallow [ 34 ].

Furthermore, reduced professional efficacy showed an increasing trend in the exhausted/cynical profile, whereas in the reduced professional efficacy profile the trend was decreasing.

geminata was not detected showed an increasing trend.

Egg volume showed a strong within‐season decline in western sandpipers, no trend in semipalmated sandpipers, and an increasing trend in red‐necked phalaropes (Figures 6 b and 7 d–f).

In our study, composition and diversity in terms of rarefaction asymptote estimates of OTU richness, indices of diversity, and number of identified taxa, particularly for bacteria, showed an increasing trend in diversity from urban to rural sites.

The magnitude of change in HR max before and after CR was +13.3 beats/min in the RER <1.0 group (p<0.05); whereas, the RER ≥1.0 group displayed an increasing trend with +5.3 beats/min.

Actually, similar studies have previously shown an increasing trend of precipitation over South China and a decreasing trend over North China, and this pattern of change has been called the “south wet/north drought” phenomenon (Gong and Ho 2002 ; Hu et al. 2003 ).

The relative level of GA 4 exhibited an increasing trend at the transition from endodormancy to ecodormancy and displayed a similar expression pattern of genes related to GA metabolism, PmGA20ox2 , PmGA3ox1, PmGID1b , in both Japanese apricot and transgenic poplar.

Worldwide there is an increasing trend of interventions for stone disease and in the future, larger prospective potentially multi-centric studies are needed for this cohort with standardized reporting on the method of assessing their stone and infection free status [ 12 , 19 ].

Within the past few years, there is an increasing trend of incidental presentation most likely due to the utilization of medical imaging and access to healthcare.

Borrowing from Stewart and colleagues, 38 power is boosted to 90% if we assume that there is an increasing trend in carotid IMT over tertiles of social vigilance assuming that a common SD within each tertile is 0.10.

8 Nevertheless, a retrospective study retrieving records from Korean health insurance databases demonstrated a high burden in terms of hospitalizations and deaths due to pneumonia and showed an increasing trend for all age-groups during the study period of 2002–2005. 9 A review of the health insurance database in 2004 revealed that the incidence of outpatient AOM was 60.9 per 1,000 population, with the highest rate reported in children aged 1 y where the reported incidence was 736.9 per 1,000 population. 10 The total cost incurred due to AOM in Korea was estimated to be as high as approximately 559 million United States Dollars (USD) 10 (all currency converted to USD using monthly average from X-Rates 2015, 1 Korean Won (KRW) = 0.00092 USD 11 ).

The flow of camels is continouos throughout the whole year and the number of animals imported per year seem to have an increasing trend.

Moreover, the bacterial community diversity showed an increasing trend from endophytic to rhizoplane and rhizosphere soil.

An increasing trend in TDF values from 2.5 to 3.4‰ as crocodilians age was simulated in our analyses to examine the sensitivity of the trophic position estimate using varying TDF values 39 .

9 C shows the decay time constant of I NaR for NM neurons before hearing onset, which presented with an increasing trend with more depolarized membrane voltage.

With regard to TB prevalence, an increasing trend was observed over time (Fig. 1 ).

Also, there has been an increasing trend over the past few years in the finding of Talaromyces strains from this particular ecological context, which appears to be in evident connection with its quite recent spread in nomenclatural use following the formal separation from Penicillium .

Trabecular bone density increased with QBA treatment in female mice, but only an increasing trend was detected in male mice.

In developing countries, despite its relatively low prevalence (<20 per 100,000), prostate cancer has shown an increasing trend in recent decades [ 2 ].