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This is consistent with previous studies showing a decreasing trend of propionate and butyrate content in the feces of obese patients induced by exogenous glucocorticoids ( 9 ).

With the number of recent studies highlighting no difference in outcomes with ORIF, it was hypothesized that there would be a decreasing trend in surgical fixation of these fractures.

A decreasing trend in the proportion of fish that spent 2 years in fresh water was apparent bay-wide ( figure 2 ), especially the almost complete disappearance of 2.3 age fish in recent returns (electronic supplementary material, figure S5).

The proportion of patients with skin changes showed a decreasing trend with increasing age. 54% of the patients in the age group of 6–7 years experienced skin irritation, while in the age groups of 8–9 years and over 10 years, 40.4% and 36.4% showed skin problems, respectively.

The platelet count (PLT) and mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH) showed a decreasing trend within the saline-treated mice compared to the controls, although statistically insignificant.

( 13 ) reported that knee spasticity levels had a decreasing trend and the MAS score was significantly lower than baseline at 1 month after WBV, the MAS score of the ankle joint, however, did not significantly change over time.

The results show that: the carbon emission efficiency of pig farming in China shows an M-shaped upward trend over time by comparing the carbon emission efficiency longitudinally during the study period and the carbon emission efficiency of pig farming shows a decreasing trend in the east, central and west regions of China by comparing the carbon emission efficiency of different regions horizontally.

The residual peak current was highest for CNF-30mins and showed a decreasing trend with the decrease in the fiber lengths.

This resulted in a decreasing trend in the number of colorectal cancer diagnoses observed in the years following the introduction of the screening programs ( 44 ). 4.2 Survival Overall, the twelve included modelling studies estimated a decreased survival.

Additionally, although the hospitalized cases of TB increased gradually from 2,066 in 2012 to 3,475 in 2019, the proportion of TBM showed a decreasing trend from 4.4 to 2.4% during the same period ( Figure 2 ).

(2021) observed a decreasing trend in GPC over the last 85 years using a DW collection including accessions representative of the Argentina, Italy, Chile, France, CIMMYT and other countries breeding programs.

Recently (Pandria et al., 2018 ), we explored the effects of skin-temperature training on clinical indicators such as exhaled carbon monoxide (CO) and total oxidative stress (TOS) showing a decreasing trend in both indicators.

This allows us to confirm the suspicion that the time series is stationary between 1967 and 1993, then manifests a decreasing trend.

In contrast, the λ max of BGALAo did not change after adding DES, but its fluorescence maximal intensity ( I max ) showed a decreasing trend.

The moisture contents showed a sharply increasing followed by a decreasing trend from the premoult to postmoult II stage in male and female crabs, respectively, while the lipid content showed an opposite trend that generally followed the negative correlation phenomenon between lipid and moisture contents [ 35 ].

Unlike aldehydes, esters and alcohols showed a decreasing trend.

The compounds produced by linoleic acid were more concentrated at 4 days and then their content showed a decreasing trend with the time of model reaction.

In the AD system, OLR ranged from 2 to 4 gTS/(Lreactor·d), and the average methane production rate showed a decreasing trend, from 202.35 and 260.25 to 118.70 mL/gVS and 202.36 mL/gVS, respectively.

Water, woodland, and urban land showed an increasing trend, while cropland and grassland showed a decreasing trend.

As shown in Figure 8 , the AA content of all treatment groups showed a decreasing trend during storage, among which the AA content of the CK group decreased rapidly and was significantly lower than that of the other four treatment groups throughout storage.

For example, epidemic prevention has a decreasing trend with the distance from infected individuals (see Indicator A11), mainly because of the subjective requirements of residents for epidemic prevention.

Physician visits show a decreasing trend with the increase in MHRCN. 3.3.2.

(2) The ecological risk level in Guilin showed a decreasing trend at the city scale, but some regions still showed an increasing trend at the county distribution scale.

However, the non-agricultural conversion of arable land caused by the coercion of construction land expansion [ 59 ] showed a decreasing trend year by year.

in the journal of infection, which showed that a decreasing trend of the infection in children with Acinetobacter baumannii and Haemophilus influenzae under the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in Henan, China. 1 , 2 In particular, the publication by Yu and colleagues in this journal, which showed that the Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection cases and the incidence rates of CMV infection in neonates (0–28 days after birth) decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic. 3 However, few studies have examined the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on CMV infection in children (0–18 years old).