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Suicide by drowning was stable from 1969 to 1982 and then followed a decreasing trend through 2012 (APC = −3.0 %).

Suicide rates by poisoning followed an increasing trend from 1969 to 1982 (APC = 5.7 %) and then decreased continuously through 2012 with an APC of −2.7 %.

Several studies in developed countries have shown an increasing trend in the prevalence of hypertension [ 6 , 7 ], while many studies also indicated an increasing trend in hypertension prevalence in China [ 8 – 11 ].

In the present study, while a majority of participants perceived that family, a partner and friends would be supportive of their making a quit attempt, nevertheless quite significant proportions also reported either that such people would be unsupportive of a quit attempt or that they were uncertain of their support (family 18 %; partner 29 % and friends 32 %), indicating a need for further research to explore their potential to play a role in smoking cessation interventions for this group.

When these single predictors were included into the same model, only sedentary time per day remained statistically significantly associated and number of steps per day remained nearly significant.

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This association was however only borderline significant among men in the crude model.

Among women, such a clear trend was not discernible.

Our data suggested that the AST/ALT ratio and MCV had borderline significance in predicting hazardous drinking.

The aspartate transaminase (AST)/alanine transaminase (ALT) ratio and mean corpuscular volume (MCV) were weakly significant.

Among social equity factors, education approached significance in model 2 and was significant in model 3.

According to the Singapore National Health Survey conducted in 2004, there has been an increasing trend of smoking and obesity [ 16 ].

According to the regression model, there was an almost significant negative interaction between FTND score and machine-measured nicotine yield (Table 2 , lower).

A positive trend for the correlation between teacher-led physical activity and percent time children were engaged in MVA was observed, but was not significant ( r = 0.19, p >0.10).

The prevalence of inactivity showed a decreasing trend from 56 % in 1975 to 36 % in 2011, and only 9 % of the participants were persistently inactive in all four surveys [ 28 ].

As expected, there were rising trends of the mean scores in exhaustion and cynicism, and a decreasing trend in professional efficacy, across the four levels of burnout (not in table).

There was a clear trend in the perception of the psychosocial dimensions across the four levels of burnout (Table 3 ).

The incidence rate of completed suicide showed a decreasing trend among males during the years of 2008–2012 which increased again during 2012–2013.

There was an increasing trend for attempted suicides during 1993–2013 with a very sharp rising trend from year 2007 onward either for men and women.

The mean 4 × 10 m shuttle-run values show a decreasing trend with age and sex, as shown in Table 3 .

There was marginal significance between ethnicity and non-completion of upper secondary school, measured at 41.3 % for Sami and 36.8 % for non-Sami, respectively.

[ 12 ] found an inverse association between MF and inflammatory biomarkers in overweight/obese Spanish adolescents after adjusting for gender, age, cardiorespiratory fitness, and weight status; this relationship was marginally non-significant in children of normal weight.

In this stratified model, illiteracy is negatively associated with PwD employed, with 0.039 and 0.265 percentage point decrease in PwD employed in rural and urban areas, respectively, for each additional unit of illiterate persons. This stratified model, however, had very significant spatial autocorrelation in the residuals (as indicated by the highly significant Moran’s I test), and thus the coefficients are likely to be biased.

However, the primary hypothesized factor, perceived HIV stigma, was marginally significant.

In addition, our study showed an increasing trend even by sex when compared to a past study in rural and periurban area in Uganda, with overweight among men being 35.5 % vs 12.4 % vs and women 41.9 % vs 23.1 %; but the increase in obesity prevalence was minimal with 2.4 % vs 2.0 % and 18.9 % vs 12.7 % among men and women, respectively [ 27 ].