“a slightly increasing trend”

In high-income countries there is also a decreasing trend in smoking behaviour among men but still a slightly increasing trend among women.

Occupational particulate matter, gas, and fume exposure The age-standardized DALY, YLL, and death rates of COPD attributable to occupational particles declined in all SDI regions, but the YLD rate presented a slightly increasing trend in later years (Additional file 2 : Fig.

In Slovenia, the estimated incidence of endometrial cancer for 2020 is 38 cases per 100,000 women with a slightly increasing trend over the last 50 years (average annual increase, 2.8%) [ 3 ].

A similar tendency was observed for GI viruses with a 66% reduction, whereas a slightly increasing trend in viral gastrointestinal infections was noted in May 2020 after the opening of nurseries and kindergartens (green arrow in Figure 1 ).

In our MRI findings, we see the same trends, with a slightly increasing trend of g-ratios when axon diameter indices increase.

After age standardization of the rate, ASIR still showed a slightly increasing trend in four countries.

A slightly increasing trend was found in the T g values along with the amount of LiTFSI (PUEE0 to PUEE6).

Albumin level showed a slightly increasing trend in group A than in group B.

In Figure 5 b, the ultimate tensile strengths also show a slightly increasing trend with increasing environmental temperature; from ANOVA analysis, we found that the p -value was 0.024, indicating it was not a significant change.

It is observed that the longitudinal modulus has a slightly increasing trend in the CD region of the tensile curve, which could be related to a reduction of the twisting angle of yarns with tensile load.

Figure 3C shows that the maximum leaf width of G1500 displayed a slightly increasing trend, indicating that the high concentration of CO 2 in the soil had a strong inhibitory effect on leaf expansion.

Using a lower BMI cut-off, the prevalence of confirmed HFpEF and suspected HFpEF according to the H 2 FPEF score revealed a slightly increasing trend, while the prevalence of no HFpEF revealed a decreasing trend.

Moreover, a slightly increasing trend in height increment (raw shoot-increment series) was detected on all plots ( Fig. 6 ).

There was a slightly increasing trend in the organic carbon concentration along the river course.

Accordingly, NNS for one CIN2 + diagnosis and NNS for one CIN3 + diagnosis both show a slightly increasing trend.

Although the average annual density in our study sites over the five consecutive seasons showed a slightly increasing trend (Fig. 2 ), we have not observed lynx expansion westwards into other surrounding areas within the lynx historical range 91 .

[ 25 ] found that whereas there is a decrease in the incidence of burn injuries from flames, there was a slightly increasing trend in the incidence of injuries from electrical sources between 2000 and 2008.

Interestingly, PDGFB expression showed a slightly increasing trend, perhaps in response to producing a high number of sperm in adulthood, but needs to be investigated in future studies.

In contrast to bacterial diversity, fungal diversity had a slightly increasing trend in the fertilized environments.

Also, we adopt same rVE to all age, which is in contrast to a previous study that evaluated the effect of age on rVE of HD vs SD influenza vaccine (from 2012 to 2018 season) reported that there had been a slightly increasing trend in rVE with age in all seasons, especially was consistently more effective than SD for adults aged ≥85 years [ 34 ].

For boys, a slightly increasing trend by period was observed, which was not significant before 2012.

Specifically, the As concentrations in the borehole of S–01 range from 3.5 to 9.1 μg/g from the depth of 20 m to 6 m with a slightly increasing trend at the depth of 12 m.

A slightly increasing trend was identified for years 2017–2019 among all hospitals.

However, when water temperature was greater than 15°C, the curve became a slightly increasing trend with an uncertainty expanded (i.e. the confidence interval is becoming wider).

All these regression coefficients showed a slightly increasing trend (from low to high quantiles of LE distribution), while the positive association between LE and GDP per capita was stronger in higher quantiles of LE distribution (e.g., 10th percentile estimate of women = 0.23, 95% CI: 0.13–0.33, 90th percentile estimate of women = 0.32, 95% CI: 0.19–0.45) ( Figure 1 a).