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This relationship approached significance among the most acculturated (OR highest acculturation = 1.12; 95% CI: 1.00–1.23) group as well.

Furthermore, a borderline significant difference was found in bent arm hang with underweight boys being able to hang for more seconds than the boys in the normal and overweight groups.

Offering adequate rehabilitation efforts may alter a negative trend out of working life when it is given to the right type of patients.

Results from our small pilot showed a possible trend towards improved appointment-keeping with primary care providers in those who received coaching.

Our results confirmed the third study hypothesis that proportion of medical expenditures paid by workers’ compensation for occupational injuries is smaller for immigrant workers than for U.S.-born workers (though this difference was only marginally significant).

borderline significant), and those who had been sexually active after the onset of symptoms were more likely to have partners who were aware of the ulcer (Table 4 ).

It is therefore surprising to see the highly significant correlations between the TF and Dean’s score for each of the QLF metrics using either a clinical or photographic gold standard.

We found an increasing trend in the odd ratios for reporting diabetes as the years of residence in the U.S. increased (Table 4 ).

At the practice level, only socio-economic status made a marginally significant contribution to explaining the variation in CVD risk, with more affluent practices having a tendency towards lower risk scores.

For example, whereas a tendency towards the stabilization of the obesity epidemic has been noted between 1999 and 2010 in the pediatric population of Australia, Europe and Russia, a decreasing trend in childhood and adolescent obesity was reported from Japan [ 5 ].

As in many other countries, the attractive and colorful packaging of these foods, despite their poor nutritional values, is one factor inducing change in Iranian children’s food choices [ 28 ], a change reflected in an increasing trend toward fast foods and high calorie snacks.

An increasing trend was also observed in the average number of pageviews per visit especially during the latter half of the assessment period.

While there is a clear trend to try to understand the complexity of and dynamic relationships between elements of health systems, there is also a demand to provide frameworks that distinguish between health system interventions, and that allow mapping with a view of analysing their returns.

This heralds a worrying trend in Malaysia since at present more than a quarter of its population is aged 15 and below [ 35 ].

Clients with > grade 12 are more than 74% less likely to be unimproved sanitation status as compared to illiterate clients (OR = 0.26 95% CI: 0.07, 0.94) (Table 2 ). A study in Bangladesh also investigated that educational status is highly significant to the presence of sanitation facilities i.e. household [ 30 ].

Interaction terms of cardiovascular risk factors and ethnicity were approaching significance only in the association of obesity with the K10 in women.

First, there may be significant variation in HP attention and impact.

Three studies [ 27 , 29 , 31 ] reported on the effect of a combined intervention on the incidence of caesarean section, and all showed a trend toward decreased prevalence but this was not large enough to be statistically significant.

In fact, two out of three men are overweight and one of every six is obese, with a clear trend to increase in the forthcoming years [ 3 ].

On the other hand, prevalence of undernutrition showed an increasing trend between 6 to 18 months of age, decreasing thereafter at 24 months (Figure 2 B).

Together, these findings suggest a decreasing trend in the burden of childhood diseases over the years in this region, possibly due to better access to health care, although the overall disease burden still remains high.

There was a clear trend showing that the greater the types of services an individual received, the more likely they were to have undergone HIV antibody testing.

The validity of our indicator for diabetes is further supported by the fact that associations of known diabetes to sociodemographic variables and major established risk factors of diabetes were all highly significant and in the expected directions (Table 1 ).

One of these settings is Croatia, with a TB incidence rate of 19 / 100 000 in 2009 and showing a decreasing trend [ 6 , 7 ].

We consider a 5% difference in absolute success rates (6 month sustained abstinence) to be highly significant.