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A more recent study describing the incidence of CDI in IBD patients found a decreasing trend [ 17 ].

In fact, if one fixes the income poverty threshold to the value observed in 2000, one observes—controlling for changes in consumer prices—a decreasing trend of income poverty from 15% in 2005 to 13.8% in 2012 (Goebel et al. 2015 ).

A crucial question to be asked is how the analysis results ought to be interpreted if they are contradictory, for instance, a situation where one rarefaction technique indicates an increasing or a decreasing trend but the other illustrates a flat trend that implies no changes in species richness.

His serum CK level varied as expected in McArdle disease, with a decreasing trend (average CK in 2011-2014: 3,006 IU/L, average in 2015-2017: 1,029 IU/L; last measured in July 2017: 941 IU/L; reference range: up to 240 IU/L).

In other words, due to lack of effective medicines, physician has to prescribe several medicines for each condition, which definitely increases the indicator” (GP 1). Percentage of Prescriptions With More Than 4 Medicines The analysis of the data showed a decreasing trend in the percentage of prescriptions with more than 4 medications ( Figure 5 ).

Hospital costs increased from 2002 to 2011, followed by a decreasing trend from 2012 to 2014.

Furthermore, there was a decreasing trend in the expression of GFAP after treatment with 20 and 40 μM OA (Fig. 3a, b ).

Over the past 2 decades, the Mainland of China has evidenced a decreasing trend in the overall level of PA among school-aged children.

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The specific Mediterranean experiment site is influenced by riverine freshwater fluxes leading to a decreasing trend in salinity the last decade ( Krestenitis et al., 2012 ).

The prevalence of flatfoot was 16.1% with a decreasing trend with age.

A decreasing trend was evidenced for Burkitt lymphomas and gonadal germ cell tumors.

Interestingly, we observed a decreasing trend in MDA, protein carbonylation, and SOD activity following intervention while total GSH and GPx showed an increasing trend, after adjusting for baseline and l -dopa values (Table 2 ).

Instead, within-population variation in flowering time exhibited a decreasing trend over time.

Timeliness of the investigation met the expected target but with a decreasing trend.

For example, a decreasing trend in uptake rates might prompt a local government to increase efforts in generating public awareness regarding the benefits of vaccination, and conversely, and increasing trend could be communicated to the upper levels of the vaccine supply chain to ensure inventory availability.

19 Our results showed a decreasing trend of periodontal disease prevalence with age (65 years or over).

4 Discussion We have shown that the Danish Sun Safety Campaign reduced the sunburn prevalence significantly during 2007 to 2015, with a decreasing trend in sunburn of 1% annually.

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When the cells were free from the laser exposure and treated by the Cu 2 MnS 2 nanoplates for 24 h only, the viability of the cells saw a decreasing trend along with the PTA concentration increase, with the survival rate declining to 85.7%, 75.1% and 60.2% at the Cu 2 MnS 2 nanoplates concentration of 10, 20, 50 μg/ml, respectively.

However, other factors were not significantly modified and a decreasing trend was observed for mtRRF2 (Fig. 5 G).

After 2013, we observed a decreasing trend in the incidence of detected USA300 cases ( Fig 1 ).

A 2011 study noted a decreasing trend in the use of adjuvant interferon α in melanoma patients with regional diseases [from 26% (1995) to 21% (2001)], suggesting a lack of consensus for adjuvant therapy use in community settings in the interferon adjuvant treatment era 13 .

Small-scale forest clearing for rotational agriculture in secondary forests displays a decreasing trend ( Fig. 3 ), which is explained by the way young secondary forests are defined in the current study (see the “Definitions” section and Discussion).

A decreasing trend was detected, with flies from combined acclimation showing positive score.