“a decreasing trend”

In line with this, green tea extract rich in phenolic compounds was also previously found to significantly reduce fasting TG and increase HDL in within-group analysis of people with T2DM, in addition to causing a decreasing trend of fasting TG in between-group analysis [ 69 ].

Moreover, we observed significant correlations between ghrelin and TC and FBS in both groups. As shown in Figure 1 , a decreasing trend was observed in mean of ghrelin level with increasing the number of MetS components ( P for trend <0.001).

We found that both tumor size and volume showed a decreasing trend throughout CCRT, which was consistent with that of skewness, kurtosis and entropies (Tables 4 and 5 ).

The pattern of an increasing trend in ischemic stroke and a decreasing trend in hemorrhagic stroke was evident regardless of reported treatment for high blood pressure or high cholesterol.

However, overall a decreasing trend was observed from the product selectivity curve.

We also observed a decreasing trend in PaCO 2 during the first 72 hours.

While a decreasing trend in the number of total expressed genes seems to appear from control to cirrhotic and HCC tissues, this difference was not significant.

With increased notch radius, the specimens have an overall increasing trend in the constant A and a decreasing trend in the constant β , and the RF specimen with flat notch root has the largest A value and the smallest β ( Fig. 4 ).

Notably, in addition to the interannual variation, the PM 10 at LABS in Taiwan seems to be modulated by a decreasing trend (see Figure 3 ).

The authors also found an increasing trend in annual precipitation from 1970 to 1990 and a decreasing trend during the 1990s.

2b ) showed a decreasing trend, but an OR below 1 only in the oldest age group.

Conversely, there were no significant differences in the expression levels of MMP-1 and IL-6 among the six groups, although a decreasing trend of IL-6 expression was observed following intervention with CSA.

The other metrics generally showed a decreasing trend during the last 25 years and attained their lowest values in 2010.

There was a decreasing trend for tibial bone SOS values in both groups.

In addition, we observed a decreasing trend of SLC30A7 in PCa of EA samples; however, the data were not statistically significant.

There was no significant difference in the content of LDH in the blood between the cortisol group and control group, but the LDH content showed a decreasing trend.

So, a positive slope indicates there was an overall trend in temperatures rising over the window of interest, a negative slope implies a decreasing trend, and a zero slope indicates stability or neither a decreasing or increasing trend.

Modified radical mastectomy experienced an increasing and then a decreasing trend, peaking in 2005 at 81.7% of the cases.

During this period, the measurements of the BHg and UHg concentrations have been repeated for five consecutive months, showing a decreasing trend ( Figure 1 ).

Although professionals have achieved more experience in performing the colonoscopic procedure and the incidence of CP has shown a decreasing trend, complications associated with the procedure may be inevitable [ 7 12 ].

plumbeus data combined across all years and zones (electronic supplementary material, figure S2); however, data collected only with gillnets in the WCDGDLF zone showed a decreasing trend in size with depth (M Braccini et al . 2016, unpublished data).

The percentage inhibition showed a decreasing trend with decrease in concentration of the samples.

Although grassland presents a decreasing trend, while, its area has increased dramatically in recent years, mainly due to the Jiangsu government’s coastal land use plan to plant 333 km 2 of grass area artificially in coastal Jiangsu 16 .

The Simpson index in our study showed a decreasing trend ( Table 1 ) and reflected the increasing heterogeneity of ecosystems from glacial snow to glacial soil.

In experimentally infected cattle, using LCM and qPCR, IL-22 mRNA expression showed a decreasing trend from stage I through stage IV using a pool of tracheobronchial, bronchial and both cranial and caudal mediastinal lymph nodes for examination [ 14 ].