“a worrying trend”

This is indeed a worrying trend among young adults who are at the brink of becoming independent.

These data indicate that while China was largely free of human rabies in the final years of the last century, a worrying trend has started to emerge.

From this, up to 3% of the respondents have not renewed their NHIS membership, a worrying trend for that matter.

A worrying trend was also observed in European countries, where 12% of patients were not on LLM at hospital discharge following admission for cardiac procedure or event, and the proportion had increased to 16% during follow up 1 year later [ 23 ].

26 , 27 Therefore, women and faculty from underrepresented ethnic and racial groups face disparity at 2 levels—initial application 32 and reapplication 26 , 27 —suggesting a worrying trend of inequitable resource allocation at all career stages.

Moreover, this research highlights a worrying trend whereby the existing workforce experiences long working hours and high levels of absenteeism, which could attract legal culpability.

This, notwithstanding, the latest reported cases for typhoid fever in Ghana still showed a worrying trend and a major public health concern.

The high prevalence of malnutrition among older persons in Ghana though a worrying trend is not surprising as in the national capital Accra, only 39.1% of the elderly have been found to be food secure 18 .

The decline in private maternity homes is a worrying trend as they provide birthing care services, especially in underserved rural areas.

The remaining cases were mostly among Asian immigrants from bordering countries but a worrying trend with respect to both helminth and protozoan parasites was the increase in prevalence over the period 2005-2008.

This is significantly associated with coinciding resistance patterns to gentamicin – a first-line intravenous antibiotic used to treat urinary tract infection and sepsis – which is a worrying trend.

Although due to the increased survival of premature infants expect the increase in the frequency of CCP in this group of children, these researchers noted an increase in diskinetic form of CCP, which occurs more frequently in the passed, and eutrophic newborns, which is a worrying trend that is difficult to explain ( 2 ).

In addition, factors such as misinformation, socioeconomic conditions, and failures in health infrastructure contribute to greater vaccine hesitancy, following a worrying trend observed globally.

baumannii are reported from different countries and this situation had a worrying trend ( 4 ).

However, a worrying trend is that coaches at younger age groups, particularly U5 and U7, tend to have quite poor knowledge regarding how to prevent an asthma attack.

A worrying trend is emerging; the gaps in PoD between those who lived in advantaged and disadvantaged areas widened in recent periods (2001–2010), in contrast to converging trends for the other factors.

The high resistance to nalidixic acid (66.5%) and ciprofloxacin (33.3%) indicates significant fluoroquinolone resistance, a worrying trend given the role of fluoroquinolones as critical antibiotics for treating bacterial infections in both animals and humans.

The analysis points to a worrying trend, namely that Germany is experiencing a decline in its position as a leading location for pharmaceutical research and development, with a widening gap from the global forefront.

While evaluation differences seem to have been decreasing over the past decade, it is a worrying trend that in recent years the proportion of abusive student comments have increased, specifically towards women and those from marginalized groups 88 .

Some studies have reported that medical residents may consume alcohol at higher rates than other healthcare professionals, a worrying trend given the stressful nature of medical training and its potential impact on mental health [ 5 ].

Conclusions: In a worrying trend, PTSD prevalence has increased among people receiving integrated behavioral health care at community-based health centers, with disparities observed in subpopulations.

There has been a worrying trend, with cases of CVD roughly doubling from 1990 to 2019, reaching 18.6 million ( Roth et al., 2020 ).

For instance, the system detected a worrying trend of HCWs infection leading to the introduction of a shift system in crowded facilities, the insistence of right use of PPEs through provision and monitoring on their use.

Conclusion: There is a worrying trend of the early age of initiation into substance use disorders.

Studies have shown that antidepressant use is widespread among medical students, indicating a worrying trend [ 13 , 14 , 15 ].