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The coefficient estimate for ‘Agriculture’ was borderline significant (OR 2.61; 95% CI 0.95–7.17; p -value 0.063).

The differences between non-DP recipients and DP recipients showed the same pattern as in the 18–39-year-old group and were significant, with the exception of sex ( p -value 0.935) and age (borderline significance; p-value 0.068).

The ITS analysis results in highly significant interaction terms (calendar year * binary MSP indicator) for all age groups.

Evidence also shows that overweight and obesity is an increasing trend in Bangladesh.

It was also found that among both men and women, the HRs for the ridit score of educational level was not much attenuated and remained highly significant in Model 2, which controlled for baseline SES and health behaviour.

This may reflect the fact that deprived communities in Glasgow are even poorer than the most deprived fifth of areas across the country; our study communities were in the most deprived 15% of neighbourhoods at the commencement of our study, indicating that there may be significant differences in the experience of poverty between neighbourhoods, even at the lower end of the deprivation spectrum.

Cured cases showed a decreasing trend, and cases of treatment withdrawal were stationary.

Results There was an increasing trend of tuberculosis cases in patients under 20 years old and 20–39 years old, especially in males.

This association is weakly significant for female children.

Age > =60 years (OR 6.0, 95% CI 0.99–115, p = 0.10), male gender (OR 2.24, 95% CI 1.07–5.30, p = 0.04) and MotPMD use (OR 3.78, 95% CI 1.11–23.7, p = 0.07) were associated with sustaining significant injury, although age fell short of significance on multivariable analysis (Table 3 ).

Also, thirteen patients of the preferred group (68%) did not show a significant change in post-intervention depression, although three could not recover due to floor effects and eight showed a trend of (non-significant) improvement in depression.

There was an increasing trend with age of inpatients going to community health centres rather than specialty hospitals.

Background A recent pooled analysis of 1698 population-based study with 19.2 million participants from 200 countries estimated that global age-standardized mean body mass index (BMI) was in an increasing trend for both men and women from 1975 to 2014, which will become a serious public health concern if post-2000 trends continue [ 1 ].

Regarding the high prevalence and incidence of CVDs, there has been an increasing trend to ascertain the main determinants and underlying causes of these diseases.

A decreasing trend of depressive symptoms was related to decreasing helplessness/pessimism.

Moreover, this research highlights a worrying trend whereby the existing workforce experiences long working hours and high levels of absenteeism, which could attract legal culpability.

By HDI, there was a significant trend of increase in proxy SS-RS from a median of 0.188 in the “low” and 0.295 in the “medium” tiers, to 0.391 in the “high” and 0.540 in the “very high” tiers (Fig. 3 ).

Conversely, this study finds negative and mixed health outcomes reported among white and Latino men, respectively associated with minimum wage increases and a negative trend in health outcomes for black men.

found a significant trend to higher leisure time activity in participants with higher educational levels [ 41 ].

Conversely, the distribution of subjects across the categories of socioeconomic status, employment status, and study level revealed a significant trend towards being employed and belonging to a high socioeconomic class for subjects with sufficient literacy.

Systematic review of published papers illustrated that, of 24 provinces, or regions, only 4 provinces (Hunan, Guangdong, Gansu, Jiangxi) showed a trend of increased mean blood Pb levels, and the prevalence of Pb poisoning [ 18 ].

ion no pmc-prop-is-scanned-article no pmc-prop-preprint no pmc-prop-in-epmc yes pmc-license-ref CC BY issue-copyright-statement © The Author(s) 2019 Background The effects of the recent global economic crisis on the health of the European population have been the subject of a systematic review that showed a trend of reduced mortality, a deterioration in mental health and an increase in the number of suicides and a worsening in perceived health in Greece and in the Baltic countries [ 1 ].

The prevalence of forgoing medical examinations or treatment was significantly higher, and with an increasing trend, among those at risk of poverty compared to those who were not (9.8% vs 6.0% between 2004 and 2007, 11.0% vs 5.8% between 2008 and 2012 and 14.1% vs 6.1% between 2013 and 2015).

Some participants described apps indirectly supporting information provision through an increasing trend of dating app users displaying their STI, HIV and PrEP status on their profile.

The highest difference was apparent in the youngest adults whereas the lowest difference was seen in 45 to 54-year-old subjects (Fig. 1 and Table 2 ).