“a decreasing trend”

In contrast to the increasing trend in optical intensity, the phase shift exhibited a decreasing trend to a minimum around 1250 μm and then gradually increased again.

Although gastric cancer showed a decreasing trend, the rate of colon cancer doubled over two decades.

The changes appear to follow a decreasing trend, in which considering suicide declined from 29% in 1991 to 14.5% in 2007 [ 197 ].

Non-statistical methods for determining DE, such as using a fold-change cutoff, can show a decreasing trend in the proportion of DE as a function of gene length (Figure S1a in Additional file 1 ).

HIV sero-positivity showed a decreasing trend over the years except from 2007 to 2008 ( Fig 1 ).

However, such as in activity assays, a decreasing trend of mRNA levels was also observed for DPP IV in RO and for NEP in CCRCC and RO.

We also found no trend in the number of deaths caused by MRSA, and a decreasing trend in the percentage of S . aureus – and MRSA-related hospitalizations that resulted in death.

1707), acting on disulphide bonds between cysteine residues within proteins, displayed a decreasing trend after ABA treatment in skins, while a similar protein was part of a spot (no. 5402) induced by ABA in skins.

In the breast epithelial cell lines, the intensities of the 75 kD nuclear MLL2, indicative of normal proteolytic processing, showed a decreasing trend with increasing malignancy from MCF10A to MDA-MB-231 except for MCF7.

The circulating levels of other proinflammatory markers followed a decreasing trend, when analyzed with such criteria (Table 1 ).

Increasing years of use of OCs or the patch was found to be associated with a decreasing trend for the risk of invasive serous EOC.

In the study by Grosvenor, axial length showed a decreasing trend after age 20 years, and more specifically, subjects older than 50 years had axial length that was 0.6 mm shorter on average than the subjects aged from 20 to 29 years. 14 In our results, the hyperopic tendency in older subjects was statistically significant ( P < 0.05) even after axial length and corneal curvature were taken into account.

In the city of Athens, Greece, annual PM 10 concentrations show a decreasing trend in the last years; however, the concentration levels are still high.

Conclusions TD remains a frequent travel disease, but there is a decreasing trend in the incidence rate.

In the study of breast disease also found in the procession (normal - simple hyperplasia - atypical hyperplasia - carcinoma in situ - invasive breast cancer) the expression of BAD had a decreasing trend [ 10 ].

A previous ecologic study reported that the incidence and mortality from esophageal cancer in Linzhou showed a decreasing trend in villages included in this water improvement project as compared with those without water improvement ( Han et al , 2007 ).

At the same time, there was a consistent trend of increasing in contents of preβ 1 -HDL whereas a decreasing trend of in those of HDL 2b with the reduction of apoC-III/C-II value.

During the follow-up of 3–6 years, the cognition of 28 out of the total 70 subjects had declined, and there was a decreasing trend in the level of Aβ42 in 24 subjects during the follow-up.

Reduction in serum T4 values in patients on lithium has also been reported by Emerson et al (1973) and Hullin et al (1975). When serum T3, T4 and TSH levels were compared between patients in the study and control group, there was a decreasing trend in T3 and T4 towards the lower side of the normal range in patients of study group, although the difference was not statistically significant.

Therefore, the doses of opioids may show a decreasing trend among those who are dehydrated.[ 12 ] We did not observe any significant difference in the doses of benzodiazepines and haloperidol even though it was postulated by some authors that dehydration causes accumulation of these medications and therefore a decrease in the dose of these medications has to be expected among the dehydrated patients.[ 13 ] The frequency of use and dose changes of opioids and these sedatives were similar in both groups.

As expected, TC did not influence any parameters related to liver and kidney function, except for a decreasing trend of serum Pi with time, which became not significant considering interaction between time and TC (Table 2 ).

Moreover, there was a decreasing trend in US per capita consumption of dietary saturated fats in 1970s-1990s (Figure 7A , open cycles) and cholesterol from mid-1940s to late 1990s (Figure 7C , open cycles), with an increasing trend in the consumption of dietary fiber from mid-1960s to the early 2000 (Figure 7E , open cycles).

However, a decreasing trend was established for both conversion to laparotomy (26% vs. 12%) and malignancy rate (10% vs. 4%) during the second half of the study (statistical significance was not reached most likely because of the result of the small number of patients in this group).

There was a decreasing trend in blood loss after 30 cases, but the difference was not significant.

Her LFT, serum creatinine, and uric acid levels showed a decreasing trend corresponding with her improved clinical condition ( Table 3 ).