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PCT serum level was higher than normal before the treatment and until 48 h after the therapy, and then it was found to have a decreasing trend.

The vast majority of studies to date have focused on BC in developed countries, where incidence and mortality rates have demonstrated a decreasing trend (or at least remaining stable in many countries).

We were surprised to find a decreasing trend for nitrofurantoin, which is exclusively used for UTI and has preserved in vitro efficacy for Escherichia coli over many years of use [ 4 , 18 ].

All signatures showed a decreasing trend in rFA up until 144 h.

Another evidence from Norway showed a decreasing trend in hypertension as physical activity increased from low (50 %) to high (38 %) for those in the age group of 45 to 64 (significant at 1 %) and more than 65 years old (significant at 10 %) [ 17 ].

[ 70 ] demonstrated a decreasing trend of RSV infection hospitalizations in patients receiving prophylaxis with palivizumab, as was already shown by the Delphy study [ 71 ].

From 1968 to 2013, the AP of Shiquanhe station showed a decreasing trend at a rate of -0.423 mm a -1 (R 2 = 0.0352), whereas the AP of Hetian station and Yutian station showed increasing trends at rates of 0.476 mm a -1 (R 2 = 0.0594) and 0.547 mm a -1 (R 2 = 0.0453), respectively ( Fig 2D, 2E and 2F ).

Surface tensions in supernatants from the reactor medium are fluctuating with a decreasing trend indicated by fitting of the data but remain above 40 mN m −1 throughout the process (Fig. 1 c).

The persisting burden of PD-related peritonitis contrasts with data from two European centers, an Australian center and a Canadian Registry, all showing a decreasing trend over time [ 44 – 47 ].

Subject 02 demonstrated a decreasing trend in ICCI from baseline of 15.17 to 9.47 at week 24.

[ 28 ] analyzed the whole-blood levels of Co and Cr among 24 patients who had undergone unilateral HRA and found that Co and Cr levels were significantly increased after 1 year, followed by a decreasing trend until the sixth year.

However, a survey from Sri Lanka [ 29 ] reported a decreasing trend in non-fatal injury rates with age this may be because of higher proportion of children going to school in Sri Lanka, which is a relatively well supervised environment.

The API values had a decreasing trend: the high values had a clustering trend in some northern cities, and the low values had a clustering trend in some southern cities.

Economically developed countries are currently located towards the advanced stages of the epidemic, with a decreasing trend in smoking prevalence among men and women [ 5 , 6 , 7 ].

As shown in Figure 2 A, Prmt6 was expressed at all stages of testicular development and showed a decreasing trend from 1–8 weeks of postnatal development.

These results indicated that the suppression of NR2F2 may induce a decreasing trend of short-term proliferation of BM-MSCs.

Hip fractures Mortality Risk factors Vitamin D pmc-status-qastatus 0 pmc-status-live yes pmc-status-embargo no pmc-status-released yes pmc-prop-open-access yes pmc-prop-olf no pmc-prop-manuscript no pmc-prop-legally-suppressed no pmc-prop-has-pdf yes pmc-prop-has-supplement no pmc-prop-pdf-only no pmc-prop-suppress-copyright no pmc-prop-is-real-version no pmc-prop-is-scanned-article no pmc-prop-preprint no pmc-prop-in-epmc yes pmc-license-ref CC BY-NC INTRODUCTION Several studies in developed countries have reported a decreasing trend in hip fracture incidence.[ 1 2 3 4 ] However, studies in Korea show that a two-fold increase in the total number of hip fractures, and the incidence rate of hip fracture in women increased steeply during a 10-year study period.[ 5 ] Hip fractures in elderly patients are the most serious because of

In both sexes, FEV 1 showed a decreasing trend in the groups with 20–27 teeth and <20 teeth compared with the 28-teeth group after adjustment for confounding factors (age, smoking, drinking, exercise, income, education, and BMI).

The mean age of the AD group was 9.45, which was significantly younger than that of the non-AD group, which was consistent with previous studies showing a decreasing trend of AD with age. 17 , 18 Our results also showed that there was no difference in the prevalence of AD between females and males, which was different from a previous report showing a female preponderance for AD, with an overall female/male ratio of 1.3:1.0. 19 Several previous reports have shown that there is no significant relationship between AD and demographic data, such as gender, BMI, and height. 13 , 20 , 21 , 22 Likewise, in our study, BMI, height, weight, and waist circumference were not associated with AD in Korean children after adjusting for age.

Regional trend ( γ ) was negative (−0.024) and statistically significant at the 95 % credible interval, indicating a decreasing trend of RHFA at the region-scale from 2011 to 2014.

The transmission shows a decreasing trend with increasing MoO 3 thickness between 800 and 940 nm, while an opposite trend with thickness variation between 940 and 1,200 nm.

The net effect of the two mechanisms, illustrated by the curve of ΔP, shows a decreasing trend with J HCO 3 - a but with a smaller slope due to P σ .

A decreasing trend was observed in time to hospitalization for all three SES groups between July and November 2014 ( S6 Fig ).

Although Turkey produces and exports fruit and vegetable the consumption of fruit and vegetable shows a decreasing trend [ 36 ] and dietary patterns differ substantially between regions and income groups.

Once ‘relationship’ and ‘community’ levels are taken into account, a decreasing trend in the ICC in regressions 3 and 4 is observed, reaching the 3% of the total variance.