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Although an increasing trend in suicide rates was observed in both young and elderly people, age-differential effects on suicide were displayed in opposite directions, in terms of absolute and proportional suicide mortality comparison.

Later observations indicated a decreasing trend, with HIV prevalence among IDUs of 54% in Quang Ninh, 46% in Hai Phong and 24% in Ha Noi in 2006.

A study of service utilization in Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles, showed that women were more likely to consult a general practitioner or specialist than men, which is in agreement with our findings (although the specialist consultation was borderline significant).

The interventions are non-pharmacological, but the patients are urged to continue their medication throughout the study since the clinical effects of a multi-pharmacological treatment on late diabetic complications are highly significant [ 46 ].

However, related costs may be significant and equally relevant in similar contexts, and policy makers should take these into account when making decisions about the funding of the programs at hand.

However two provider attitude variables approached significance.

Bias is much smaller, and only marginally statistically significant, when the study protocol explicitly allows participants to opt out of post-test counseling and the return of HIV test results.

First, we identified marginally significant bias under the assumptions of a protocol whereby test results are not returned to respondents.

In the first binary logistic model (consent levels B and C versus A), the likelihood of being HIV positive is correlated with consent for testing and post-test counseling and highly significant: for each percentage point increase in the likelihood of infection, the odds to consent to testing and post-test counseling (consent level A) decrease by 1.5%.

Female farmers reported significantly higher prevalence of doctor-diagnosed overall chronic diseases than other occupational groups and the total population, whereas male farmers showed a decreasing trend in prevalence of chronic diseases.

The prevalence of enuresis showed a decreasing trend with increasing age of children.

At multivariate analysis (adjusting for the individual factors considered in the model reported in Table 1 ), history of blue-collar work reached borderline significance as a predictor of surgically treated CTS (OR, 4.2; 95% CI, 1.0-17.5).

In the multivariate-adjusted model, the association remained significant in men but was only borderline significant in women ( p for linear trend = 0.005 for men and 0.051 for women).

Despite a positive trend regarding progress towards work after 1 year, none of these individuals actually returned to work within the next 2 years.

The reduction in expired CO in reducers was highly significant, even at 12 months, which confirmed the efficacy of smoking reduction in our subjects.

An increasing trend of positive test results for Enteritidis was also documented in broiler chickens from 2000 to 2005 [ 11 ].

The Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study (TLGS) with median follow-up of 3.6 years [ 10 ] reported an increasing trend for prevalence of obesity and abdominal obesity in both sexes.

Therefore, the odds of obesity in ethnic minority groups shows an increasing trend after controlling for the excess risks associated with low socio-economic status.

Furthermore, there was an increasing trend in the prevalence of these characteristics that paralleled the severity of running away.

However, since 1998, four consecutive countrywide surveys showed a decreasing trend in the prevalence of underweight and stunting in all age and sex categories [ 14 ].

In Ethiopia there was an increasing trend of child undernutrition between 1983 and 1998 with significant variability between regions [ 13 ].

A range of health outcomes (12 items for boys and 10 for girls) showed significance or were marginally significant before controlling for other factors, and 6 items for boys and 9 for girls reached at least marginal significance in adjusted models (Tables 3 & 4 ).

A significant negative association was found in relation to urban living (OR 0.48; 95% CI 0.32-0.73, p = 0.001), whereas the association with education level was only of borderline significance (p for trend = 0.051 OR 0.71; 95% CI 0.51-1.00) (Tables 2 and 3 ).

Up to 40% of older people can be considered as frail and an increasing trend can be expected [ 1 ].

While the incidence among hairdressers is smaller than in the bakery sector, several authors, as Ameille, observed an increasing trend: since the ONAP (Observatoire National des Asthmes Professionnels) was created in France in 1996, the proportion of OA in the hairdressing sector progressed from 5.5% in 1996 to 8% in 1998 and 10% in 2000 [ 22 ], calling for a better surveillance in this occupation.