The popularity and widespread use of electronic products has spawned a worrying trend of people frequently putting their heads down and becoming addicted to these devices, leading to a disruption in interpersonal communication and interaction.
A worrying trend is the number of elderly patients admitted across all ICUs (above 80 years), mostly requiring aggressive life-sustaining care.
With various studies on HCWs associated with COVID-19 showing a relatively high prevalence of anxiety and depression symptoms among HCWs, stigma seems to be a worrying trend for this group of workers, especially frontline workers ( 25 – 27 ).
53 This highlights a worrying trend, and education on asthma medications is the key to improve the situation.
Migration of South-eastern European HCWs to other European countries is a worrying trend.
It is a worrying trend to see a newer but expensive technology being introduced very rapidly into practice without high levels evidence of its clinical and cost-effectiveness or safety.
Studies published in the Lancet highlight a worrying trend in the burden of AMR among people over 70 years of age, which is critical given the rapidly ageing ‘Western’ global community.
In that study, 50% of isolates were resistant to both imipenem and meropenem, with some isolates expressing the bla NDM-1 gene [ 59 ], which indicates a worrying trend. 4.
Discussion Demand for COVID-19 vaccine has slowed in recent months [ 2 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 ], presenting a worrying trend that could delay achievement of herd immunity, allow for continued widespread circulation of the virus, and allow new variants to emerge and/or become more prevalent.
The rates of knowing that babies should be exclusively breastfed and the disconnect between exclusively for 6 months and the use of powdered milk and breastmilk substitutes among up to 30% of respondents is a worrying trend especially given the lack of clean water in the areas surveyed.
This is a worrying trend.
There has been in recent decades a worrying trend of decreasing Neurosurgical Residency operative numbers observed.
This is a worrying trend since the two health professionals interact during the care of patients.
The “indoorisation” of society is a worrying trend for human health for three reasons; firstly there is evidence associating time spent outdoors with improved outcomes for health and wellbeing; and secondly, time spent indoors is negatively associated with a number of health issues [ 10 ].
A study conducted in Nigeria among health care workers found that approximately 85% believed all children with sore throat should be treated with antibiotics. 5 Furthermore, a study conducted among the general population in Saudi Arabia found nearly half of the participants believed antibiotics are helpful in treating sore throat. 15 While this shows basic awareness that bacterial infections require antibiotics, it also portrays a worrying trend of overprescription or self-medication especially in places where use of antibiotics is readily accessible over the counter, 19 which in turn can lead to the rise of resistant bacterial pathogens. 20 Addressing this issue requires joint efforts, particularly from governments and policy makers.
This metabolic disorder demonstrates a worrying trend of increasing incidence among younger individuals and serves as a major risk factor for various chronic conditions, including hypertension, fatty liver disease, cirrhosis, peripheral vascular diseases, ischemic cerebrovascular diseases, and pancreatitis ( 216 , 217 ).
Increasing caesarean section rates are a worrying trend that will have consequences for preterm birth rates if not addressed appropriately [ 75 ].
Studies indicate a worrying trend of declining self-esteem among this demographic, a crucial aspect of adolescent development that influences future mental health outcomes.
Can he still be considered an expert on the topic of forensics and profiling? Or was he more like a pseudo-expert all along? If experts could be reliably recognized as such, there would be no discussion about a current “crisis of expertise.” Yet, some have noted a worrying trend in our current intellectual environment: actual experts are sometimes ignored and dismissed, while non-experts tend to pose as and take the place of genuine experts ( Nichols, 2017 ; Eyal, 2019 ).
Charlton, M.D., from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, who in 1996 in the Journal of the Royal College of Physicians in London , summed up the state of population-based epidemiology: There is a worrying trend in academic medicine which equates statistics with science, and sophistication in quantitative procedure with research excellence.
The global prevalence of NAFLD has soared dramatically from 1990 to 2021, a worrying trend further reflected in the increasing incidence of NAFLD among young individuals aged 15–39.
These findings reveal a worrying trend: the pandemic significantly delayed recurrence diagnosis and was associated with an increased risk of death after recurrence.
Scenarios of mode shift from walking and cycling to 2W present a worrying trend of fatalities if growth in 2W ownership continues to replace existing trips of walking and cycling.
By contrast, the tendency to an increase in overweight and obesity represents a worrying trend.
It's a worrying trend because, down the line, they might face serious health issues they never saw coming.