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All tests were conducted separately for women and men, since there may be significant differences in health between the sexes [ 30 ].

The following findings can be drawn: First, temperature, humidity, precipitation, and sunshine experienced much larger fluctuations than RHC did , while REE shows an increasing trend line.

(2) From the perspective of the comprehensive tourism economic development index, the tourism economic development index for Nagasaki Prefecture from 2010 to 2019 exhibited an increasing trend (from 0.084 to 0.424), with the rate of development increasing year by year.

For the conventional and low-input practices, the soil urease activity showed an obvious trend of change that was related to thetime of sampling, i.e., activity in December was significantly higher than activity in October.

This result was extremely significant in the susceptible group, but not in the non-susceptible group, which may be because the symptoms of the non-susceptible group were not obvious.

In Uzbekistan, the difference of treatment outcomes in districts is probably explained by a number of factors that include: (a) different rates of drug resistance; (b) the capacity of the district health systems to detect and treat cases early and follow them up, particularly in the continuation phase of treatment; (c) quality of primary health care services as a first point of screening of presumptive TB; (d) compliance with treatment guidelines (there was an increasing trend in using standardized regimens from 2% in 2012 to 44% in 2018 for the treatment of MDR TB patients [ 14 ]; and (e) patient characteristics such as migration and population mobility.

While social connectedness is not limited to (registered) civil status or having a guardian, these numbers suggested that social isolation may be significant among mothers in ASCs.

Females were underrepresented in the pre-sarcopenic group, whereas in all groups, age showed a significant trend across the sarcopenia-related categories, with the non-sarcopenic subjects being the youngest.

The revised sequence, applying muscle strength instead of muscle mass, resulted in a negative trend across the categories of sarcopenic status with physical activity and no trend with weight and BMI or metabolic biomarkers, except for a negative trend with the cardiometabolic biomarker HDL cholesterol.

This effect is similar regarding attitudes about healthy eating, but the impact is marginally significant.

The three factors representing urban environmental obstacles were found to have a highly significant independent effect on the need for help to move in the community: transportation (OR: 2.0 CI: 1.61–2.49); outdoor spaces (OR: 1.68, CI: 1.30–2.16); and information (OR: 1.89, CI: 1.52–2.34). 4.

(2) The fragmentation degree of built-up areas is 0.1097, 0.1053, 0.0811 and 0.0762 in 1990, 2000, 2010 and 2018, respectively, with a decreasing trend.

Cultivated land showed an increasing trend first and then decreased slowly from 1990 to 2018.

Water also showed a trend of fluctuant increase in area and increased by 4.57 km2, with an increased rate of 1.42%.

A further sex stratification analysis revealed that men who live alone after SD exhibited more depression (OR = 3.0, borderline significance) and men who lived with their families after SD exhibited significantly more severe depression compared with before SD (OR = 2.3, p < 0.01).

In particular, Shandong and Jiangsu provinces showed a significant trend of high–speed expansion.

In particular, Sichuan province showed a trend of negative population growth.

Most provinces showed an exponential increase in GDP since 1990, while some provinces such as Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, and Liaoning displayed a decreasing trend after 2015.

The output values of three industries in 31 provinces showed an increasing trend over time wholly.

Across all study subjects, 74,057 ED visits were recorded, with an increasing trend in the number of visits during the study period.

Similarly, Huanggang city and Xiaogan city increased, respectively, by 92.11% and 78.28%, which showed a trend of substantial growth.

Antidepressant prescriptions show an increasing trend [ 9 ] that has outpaced the rise in the prevalence of CMDs [ 10 ].

The global burden of IDA is mostly driven by females and children, but an increasing trend in males has been reported in numerous studies, most commonly resulting from chronic gastrointestinal blood loss and poor dietary choices [ 13 , 14 , 15 ].

An increasing trend was also observed for the separate results of male and female.

Although Cu was removed from the F2 fraction, the share of metal remaining in this fraction fluctuated depending on the washing sequence, and an overall trend was not obvious.