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From 2000 to 2019, the incidence of cancer in individuals older than 55 years showed a decreasing trend, whereas their five-year survival rates showed an increasing trend.

We observed an increasing trend in the outpatient rate before and during COVID-19 (Fig. 2 ).

Additionally, unmarried status was associated with a higher probability of adverse outcomes (OR = 4.36), with a decreasing trend observed after intervention in the study group (OR = 3.34).

Minority groups also showed a trend toward adverse outcomes, possibly related to the unique religious and cultural practices of the Hui minority created by the local Hui autonomous system.

Overall, when it comes to the perceived humour of a message, a positive trend towards a positive relation between humour and self-efficacy can be found [ 29 , 54 ].

Firstly , HCBSs offer proximity and save time and money, which are partially significant in promoting physical health in chronically ill older adults, and better meet the demand for health care services, thus promoting their SRH [ 48 , 49 ].

Another study in Plateau state, Nigeria however established an increasing trend in the prevalence of childhood diarrhea from 2013 to 2017 [ 29 ].

While it displays an encouraging trend, using such wealth-based indicators may skew our assessment of distributional equity: adding the other demographical, social, and economic factors through the VERSE Equity Toolkit (detailed in the Methods) brings the concentration indices back in positive values, highlighting the adverse effect of compounding disadvantages on coverage.

However, during this period, SO 2 concentrations and temperature showed an overall increasing trend while precipitation showed an increasing trend until 2013 followed by a subsequent decreasing trend.

Results 77,405 cases of PTB among the elderly were notified, showing a decreasing trend in the notification rate.

Drift above 0.0% per year is considered an increasing trend, while drift below 0.0% per year shows a decreasing percentage change next year.

Except for areas with high SDI, the risk of birth queue in other areas showed a trend that women were higher than men in 1890–1945, and then men were higher than women (Fig. 7 , Table S1 ).

In addition, there may be significant differences in incidence between different regions of the same country, whereas GBD does not have a detailed record of development within the country.

Additionally, when the relative government policy index is greater than one, the ALE plots demonstrate a negative trend; however, the magnitude of this effect is relatively smaller compared to other dynamic variables examined in the analysis.

The premarital sex rate reported in China from 2011 to 2019 ranged from 13.36 to 30.4%, accompanied by an increasing trend year by year [ 3 – 5 ].

We also found that there was an increasing trend in the risk of postpartum hemorrhage after the introduction of the universal two-child policy.

More work is required to understand why statistical significance might be achieved for waist circumference without the change in BMIz approaching significance.

Conversely, the global ASDR exhibited a decreasing trend from 766.07 (718.30-813.11) per 100,000 population in 1990 to 560.43 (521.86-602.02) per 100,000 population in 2019 (Table 1 ; Figure S3 and S4 ), indicating a decline of 26.84%.

Our research indicated that participants in the high but bell-shaped anxiety and depression group tend to exhibit an increasing trend in their mean scores from the beginning of the study to the sixth month, which then decreases from six to twelfth months.

In contrast, the incidence rates showed an increasing trend throughout the age categories, reaching a peak among those aged 70 to 74 for both sexes (Fig. 2 B).

About the studies conducted on PHDs, there was an increasing trend in the number of published articles from 2020 to 2022.

Firstly, depression and anxiety symptoms have shown a decreasing trend in the general population, including our participants, during the COVID-19 pandemic [ 50 ].

Although the risk of IHD development was greater in the low-income group than in the high-income group [RR (95% CI) for period 2: low-income group, 1.77 (1.52, 2.07); high-income group: 1.47 (1.31, 1.65)], the difference was marginally significant (p-value for heterogeneity: 0.06) (Table S5 , see Additional file 1).

We also found a decreasing trend of bullying victimization as the grade increased among both heterosexual and sexual minority students.

Studies presenting crude drowning rates of different years and populations in Türkiye showed that drowning in Türkiye has been on a decreasing trend recently.