“a decreasing trend”

Periodontal Severity and COPD Exacerbations Figure 2 shows the association between lung function parameters (post-bronchodilator FEV 1 percent predicted, FVC percent predicted, and FEV 1 /FVC ratio) and periodontitis severity, which showed that an increase in periodontitis severity and lung functions followed a decreasing trend even after adjusting for smoking (in pack-years), which was statistically significant ( p < 0.001).

Annual crime rates for the 2009–2016 period show a decreasing trend in both the general population (IRR = 0.981, 95% CI 0.978–0.983, P < 0.001) and in the FEP group (IRR = 0.019, 95% CI 0.012–0.028, P < 0.001); this pattern is more pronounced in the FEP group.

In comparison, the NTR curve remained relatively stable (NTR: β = −0.042, p = 0.898, R 2 = 0.002), while the mesh curve exhibited a decreasing trend (TVM: β = −0.973, p < 0.001, R 2 = 0.94).

The pH of the fish cakes was 7.09 in the control group and 6.87–7.04 in the garlic-powder groups, demonstrating a decreasing trend with increasing amounts of garlic powder (P < 0.001).

In-hospital mortality rates for patients with hypertension, DM, LC, CKD, and malignancy were 25.5%, 25.2%, 34.5%, 28.0%, and 33.3%, respectively, showing a decreasing trend over time ( P < 0.001).

3 Results 3.1 HR A decreasing trend was observed in the control group (Time effect: F (7, 231) = 4.583, p < 0.001, η 2 = 0.122).

Kaplan–meier analysis of MAP and 28-day and 90-day mortality Kaplan–Meier analysis illustrated that compared with Quartile 1, the 28-day mortality in Quartiles 2, 3, and 4 showed a decreasing trend, and the difference between groups was significant (log-rank test = 36.82, p < 0.001, as displayed in the left panel of Figure 2 ).

Combination therapy was the predominant pattern of treatment, monotherapy showed a decreasing trend over time ( p < 0.001), while the proportion of dual combination therapy and triple or more combination therapy kept on increasing during the 5-year period (both p < 0.001).

7 The incidence of ICC among Japanese women aged 20–29 years significantly increased during 1975–2011 (APC 5.9, 95% confidence interval [95%CI] 5.6 to 6.1, p < 0.001), in line with previous reports, 13 , 14 , 15 but converted to a decreasing trend from 8.0 to 2.8 (reduction rate 65.0%) during 2011–2020 (APC −13.5, 95%CI −11.9 to −14.5, p < 0.001).

ACTH : it showed a decreasing trend during the profile in both conditions ( p = 0.001 placebo, p = 0.012 diclofenac) but at a direct comparison, the two trends did not show any significant difference (Table 1 and Supplementary Fig. 2 a-b).

This was driven by an increasing number of firearm injuries per 10 000 ED visits at the S site (β=+0.11 (SE 0.02), p≤0.001), whereas the W site had no change over time and the MA and NE sites both had a decreasing trend over time (β=−0.19 (SE 0.04), p=0.001; β=−0.0.15 (SE 0.04), p=0.002, respectively).

The population aged above 79 showed a decreasing trend with an AAPC of −1.36% (95% CI: −1.97 to −0.75; p < 0.001), while the population aged between 60 and 79 showed an overall stable trend (p for AAPC = 0.413) ( Supplementary Table S3 ).

Results There was a decreasing trend in rates of mechanical (trend: −0.05% per year; P < 0.001), inflammatory or infectious (−0.48%; P < 0.001), and other (−0.19%; P < 0.001) complications from 2005 to 2018.

There was a decreasing trend in antibody titers with increasing CCI scores (trend P < 0.001).

People living with HIV/AIDS with a history of surgery or blood donation showed a decreasing trend (Trend χ 2 = 42.881, P < 0.001).

The percentage of participants with BLLs above the current reference value showed a decreasing trend with the increasing poverty-to-income ratio ( p -value < 0.001), while no association was found across educational levels.

Results During the study period, altogether 19 550 DEs were reported, and the annual number of error reports showed a decreasing trend ( n = 3 913 in 2015 vs. n = 2 117 in 2020, RR 0.54, p < 0.001).

A final change occurs in 2016 (p<0.001, Supremum Wald statistic=165.08), followed by a decreasing trend (beta coefficient: −0.66 (95% CI −0.88 to –0.44), p<0.001).

A decreasing trend in the rate of malocclusion with age was observed, from 78.2% at age 3 to 63.2% at age 5 ( p = 0.001, Table 1 ).

The data indicated a significant increasing trend in the prevalence of DM, from 8.3% (in 2009) to 9.7% (in 2019) (p=0.004), in contrast the prevalence of CVD among patients with DM showed a decreasing trend (from 33.9% to 20.4%; p<0.001).

Similarly, in the MCDB cohort, patients’ prognoses showed a decreasing trend by the new pN classification (all P < 0.001, Fig. 4 C).

A decreasing trend of DC was observed in all age groups, and ICP showed an increasing trend ( p < 0.001) in all age groups except for the 1–3-year-old group where the increasing trend of ICP was not statistically significant ( p = 0.056).

Concurrently, the lower limb muscle strength showed an increasing trend over the time in the experimental group and a decreasing trend in the control group, and the scores of the experimental group surpassed those of the control group (p<0.001).

Before treat-all mean CD4 showed a not significant trend per month (IRR = 0.998, 95% CI : 0.995–1.001; P = 0.196), after treat-all showed a decreasing trend of 0.3% per month (IRR = 0.997, 95% CI : 0.997–0.998; P < 0.001); by the end of 2019, mean CD4 was not significantly different from expected level (IRR = 0.973, 95% CI : 0.842–1.124; P = 0.709).

coli isolates resistant to most of the antibiotic categories remained stable between 2015 and 2019, though a decreasing trend in the proportion of E. coli isolates resistant to fluoroquinolones (37.8–32.0%, p < 0.001) and aminoglycosides (15.6–11.9%, p = 0.002) was observed over time (Fig. 3 ).