“a decreasing trend”

While the rate of death due to RTA had an incremental rate in age group 18-30 years and among women, it had a decreasing trend in age groups 35-45, under18 and among men.

With respect to the evolution of the frequency of vomiting, although it was more irregular, there was also a decreasing trend (Figure 3 ).

Our results showed a decreasing trend in T1ρ values of both NP and AF with the increase of Pfirrmann grade, and the association between T1ρ values of NP and AF and Pfirrmann grade was significant ( r =−0.69, P <0.001; r =−0.45, P <0.001), which is in agreement with previous reports that T1ρ values of AF decline significantly over disc degeneration [ 9 ] and that T1ρ values of NP are moderately correlated with Pfirrmann grade I–V disks of patients with low back pain [ 6 ].

Results Most lab values showed a decreasing trend over time in the expected amount of novel information they contained.

Since 2000, HIV incidence steadily increased and reached levels comparable with those in the mid-1980s by 2005, followed by a decreasing trend to 590 (400, 780) new infections in 2011.

A decreasing trend of 2–4 times in the T3 sample was noticed for bacteria representing phyla Spirochaetes, Chloroflexi, WS3, Bacteriodetes, Nitrospira, Gemmatimonadetes, Chlorobi, and Cladithrix, whereas phyla Acidobacteria and Fusobacteria remained virtually unchanged (Fig. 1 ).

Seven of the medicines with significant time trends were in Paraiba, with two of them showing an increasing trend (Captopril, Paracetamol) and five showing a decreasing trend (Aciclovir, Metformin, Omeprazol, Tramadol, and Warfarin).

A noteworthy result of our study was a decreasing trend in the average post-operative costs and total costs caused by a lower average cost for consultations observed in the year 2009.

We see that the QD uncertainty values show a decreasing trend with higher magnification, and values as low as ≈5 nm are measured.

Prescriptions with fluoroquinolones showed a decreasing trend over the 5 years.

The anthocyanin accumulation in petal showed a decreasing trend, with undetectable at the full-bloom stage.

Interestingly, a high abundance of Alphaproteobacteria was captured at B0, with a decreasing trend along the water column of station B.

Plots of the resulting SH smooth term ( Fig 2 ) showed a decreasing trend, indicating an inverse association with influenza activity.

The uncertainty follows a decreasing trend as the product yield increases.

2014 ) and the two ROV dive observations from the present study suggests that there is a decreasing trend with respect to marine litter abundance to the corresponding distance from the coastline (Fig. 5 a).

Conclusions The positivity rate of any STI among FSW remained stable, but underlying this was a decreasing trend in the chlamydia positivity rate and an increasing trend in the gonorrhoea positivity rate, suggesting a shift in STI risks among FSW over time.

Conclusion Entomophagy is general in Laos, and well accepted despite a decreasing trend in consumption over the last decade.

As shown in Table 4 , folate-deficient mice presented a decreasing trend in serum levels of P4 and E2 compared with normal mice.

The CO concentrations showed a decreasing trend up to about 50°N, indicating a decrease in local contribution by anthropogenic sources, such as fossil fuels, north of 50°N.

Another study in Tokyo, Japan found a negative association between temperature and HFMD when the average temperature is above 25 °C and a decreasing trend also appeared above 26 °C in a study in Beijing [ 15 , 20 ].

Incidence rates for skin Melanoma vary sensibly across Italy, with a decreasing trend moving from North to the South.

Narayanan B also found genital ulcer more common than warts (condyloma acuminata), similar to other studies.[ 4 6 ] Herpes genitalis was the most common (50%) among the genetic ulcers as found in previous studies.[ 5 7 ] Increasing trend of herpes genitalis has been found in other studies as well.[ 7 8 9 10 11 12 ] Our study found good number of chancroid patients (24.07%), in accordance with some previous studies.[ 3 13 ] However, overall a decreasing trend for bacterial infections like chancroid, syphilis, gonorrhea has been noted in the literature.[ 5 ] Next most common presentation in our study was vaginal discharge found in 22.83% patients. 57.14% of these had vaginal candidiasis, 23.81% trichomoniasis, 9.52% bacterial vaginosis, 4.76% gonococcal urethritis, and 4.76% had mixed infection.

8 Moreover, there is a decreasing trend in nutritional diseases, perhaps due to the effectiveness of nutritional intervention programs in Nepal.

In addition the Chinese study showed that protrusion showed a decreasing trend with increasing age.

The surgical duration for WAVS-assisted encircling buckling showed a decreasing trend, although there were no significant differences, probably because the surgical duration included the time spent on procedures other than marking, cryopexy, and final check of the fundus.