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There was a decreasing trend in the incidence of severe PE and eclampsia with increasing dietary vitamin C intake.

The TCM use prevalence exhibited a decreasing trend and was much higher among incident than among prevalent asthma.

The linear regression shows a decreasing trend in both features with age in the group of diseased subjects, but there is no age dependence for healthy individuals.

Survival on Eggs The TVC of both eggs inoculated with Salmonella and the uninoculated control eggs stored at 4°C showed a decreasing trend in the first two weeks of storage with an approximately 2.0 log 10 MPN/cm decrease after two weeks.

Regarding the levels of NMT, despite the lack of significant difference between the groups ( p = 0.09), a decreasing trend in the amount of nonmineralized tissue in the test group was observed, which was, on average, 10% lower than in the control group.

Abscisic Acid may be Involved in the Regulation of PA Biosynthesis in Peach Fruit Proanthocyanidins accumulate most abundantly in immature fruits such as apple ( Henry-Kirk et al., 2012 ), bilberry ( Jaakola et al., 2002 ), banana ( Barnell and Barnell, 1945 ), and strawberry ( Symons et al., 2012 ; Schaart et al., 2013 ), and levels decrease toward ripening In this study, a decreasing trend was also observed for flavan-3-ols in peach fruit, consistent with a previous report in nectarine ( Ravaglia et al., 2013 ).

For HCC-specific deaths, a decreasing trend ( P for trend <0.001) was observed in all stages with no treatment, statin use alone, palliative treatment, and palliative treatment plus statin use.

The rate of AE events before (1.51 events/person-year), during ICS use (1.22 events/person-year), and after ICS discontinuation (0.98 events/person-year) showed a decreasing trend (Figure 2 B).

Between April 2006 to December 2012, 1 160 299 (3.4%) spells were associated with inpatient mortality, though a decreasing trend is observed for example, April 2006 (N=15 042) to April 2012(N=14 437) ( figure 6 A).

A decreasing trend in glacial and interglacial mean terrestrial net primary production was observed from coastal South China to East China 65 , 66 , 67 , 68 , 69 , 70 , 71 , 72 .

However, with increase in the size of the box, the frequency, and height of lift, MAWL had a decreasing trend, which was consistent with Snoock et al.’s study.

The absorbance values mimic a polynomial of 2 nd degree and 2 nd order showing a decreasing trend.

However, the pattern of shigellosis in other parts of Ethiopia has shown a decreasing trend in prevalence overtime though the decrement is not uniform.

A decreasing trend in 3A dimerization was observed for R 7- fused peptides α1 and α12.

2b ), showing a decreasing trend at RR, increasing after treatment for most patients.

A decreasing trend of high-density lipoprotein levels was recorded (control = 1.73 mg/dl; non-diabetic = 1.27 mg/dl and diabetic = 1.17 mg/dl), however a reverse trend was found for total cholesterol (control = 4.44 mg/dl; non-diabetic = 4.91 mg/dl and diabetic = 6.37 mg/dl), and low-density lipoprotein (control = 2.31 mg/dl; non-diabetic = 2.83 mg/dl and diabetic = 3.05 mg/dl) blood levels.

There was no significant difference in average net knee power between powered and average unpowered conditions ( P =0.195), yet a decreasing trend of the magnitude was observed.

Results When the last 10 years were compared to the previous years, sentinel general practice surveillance recorded a decreasing trend of influenza‐like illness rates in the community.

During the past forty years, males showed a decreasing trend in recombination rate that coincided with the artificial selection for milk production.

Compared with the 2012 season, the chlorophyll content for the 2013 season showed a decreasing trend, a decrease of 4.0~17.2% depending on the salinity of the irrigation water.

The participation rate of the organized cervical cancer screening program in Finland is currently at 70 % with a decreasing trend [ 1 ].

We also saw a decreasing trend of postoperative nausea and vomiting.

Theoretical investigations in [ 16 ] demonstrate that the Gain versus δ relation exhibits a decreasing trend as δ increases for smooth bifurcation, whereas the Gain versus δ relation exhibits an increasing trend as δ increases for border-collision bifurcation.

Shade-tolerant species systematically showed high WSG values with a decreasing trend along the radial profile (negative slopes, Fig 4 ).

Although the measurements obtained for end-diastolic volume (EDV) and LV end-diastolic dimension (LVIDd) displayed a decreasing trend in both the QL and the Valsartan groups versus the CHF group, the difference was not statistically significant ( P > 0.05).