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Furthermore, compared to white MSM, black MSM have worse outcomes at each stage along the HIV care continuum, a notable trend in cities across the country [ 2 , 3 ].

The degree of the change in activity behaviors may be significant for health.

Focusing on people living in undeveloped region might be significant.

Diabetes was also positively associated with overweight and obesity and higher level of education completed, but these associations did not quite achieve significance (Table 2 ). 54.0% (CI 41.6–65.9) of the diabetic population had previously tested for diabetes.

The prevalence of diabetes was 4.4% (CI 3.4–5.5), and associated with old age (OR 14.1, CI 6.05–32.65) and almost significantly with obesity (OR 2.1, CI 1.00–4.37).

A significant trend has been the rise in weapon-related crime, with 285 homicides committed involving a knife or sharp instrument in year ending March 2018 - an increase of 70 offences compared to the previous year [ 1 ].

Since smoothing the data revealed a decreasing trend, four of the time-series models (Linear, Quadratic, Exponential and Autoregressive forecasting) were tested to find out which model best explained the trend.

As noted in the last column, this difference is highly significant.

Similarly, the spatial distribution of annual rainfall exhibited an increasing trend from north to south.

For example, individuals who majored in social sciences and business (marginally significant) were associated with decreased substance use with age, compared to individuals in arts and humanities majors.

Sensitivity analyses may be conducted on these odds ratio, mixed effects and geospatial data with many highly significant e-Value results as shown in Supplementary Table 9 .

In contrast to the national trend [ 12 , 41 ], although prevalence of insufficient physical activity is still high, it shows a decreasing trend in the TLGS population.

Moreover, the relevancy of internal consistency is quite significant and has been proved to be practical and effective by relevant research subsequently.

Between 2004 and 2014, the CHE rate decreased in Vietnam but China saw an increasing trend of CHE rate during a similar time span.

However, a study conducted in the US showed that although chemotherapy treatment was associated with a decline in caregivers’ involvement in their own daily routines, it was not a highly significant predictor [ 30 ].

The association between the birth order of children and the prevalence of undernutrition was highly significant.

These stages are: the growth stage–characterised as an increasing trend in daily reported cases numbers; the post-peak stage–characterised by declines in daily case numbers, indicating the curve is flattening; the recovery stage–characterised by declines in active case numbers.

Moreover, there was an increasing trend of the participants’ self-efficacy scores from before the lecture of the day of theory till after 4 weeks of practice.

Adjusted testing utilization varied little between 2014 and 2018; there was an increasing trend of 0.8% (0.6–1.0%) for colonoscopy/FOBT and of 0.5% (0.2–0.8%) for PSA testing, while mammography use decreased by 1.5% (1.2–1.7%).

Annual participation rates for breast cancer screening varied between 23 and 84% in 17 European countries with mostly organized national or regional breast screening programs, with a decreasing trend even before 2014 [ 14 ].

In Belgium, an increasing trend was registered in the age groups between 50 and 79 years in men and 50–59 and 70–79 in women.

The results of a study in Iran showed that the incidence of basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma and malignant melanoma has had an increasing trend in recent years.

Results While the HIV/AIDS incidence had an increasing trend in Colombia, the AIDS mortality rate was stable.

The mortality rate had a decreasing trend in the 0–14 and 15–44 groups.

Health behaviours, whilst important risk factors for oral disease [ 8 ], are less likely to be significant in our model.