“a worrying trend”

These observations present a worrying trend of antimicrobial resistance in the East African region.

In recent years, there has also been a worrying trend in Brazil with a pause in protecting new areas and even reductions in the extent and protection category of previously protected areas [ 47 ].

Reoperation A worrying trend is the relatively frequent rate of reoperation as a result of complications or insufficient weight loss (or both), especially for adjustable gastric banding.

A worrying trend is the number of elderly patients admitted across all ICUs (above 80 years), mostly requiring aggressive life-sustaining care.

Conclusions: Our study highlights a worrying trend in increasing obesity and hypertension, most likely associated with increasingly poor diet and reduced participation in exercises.

D IABETES: A N E VER-INCREASING P UBLIC H EALTH B URDEN Globally, the number of people with diabetes continues to rise year on year, providing a major challenge to public health and an enormous economic burden.[ 1 , 4 ] The International Diabetes Federation estimates 382 million people globally had diabetes in 2013, with more than 160 million from China and India alone.[ 4 ] T2D accounts for approximately 90% of all cases worldwide, and a worrying trend is the increasing diagnosis of T2D in children and adolescents.[ 5 ] In addition to economic development, rapid transitions to Western lifestyles, and increasing obesity rates,[ 4 , 6 ] other more inherent reasons might explain the escalating burden of T2D in regions such as Asia.[ 2 , 7 , 8 , 9 ,

Once completed, the authors observed that, even after correction, the female applicants needed to, on average, be 2.5 times as productive as man for the same competence score, with a worrying trend that the higher impact the applicant, the higher a male applicant’s contributions were scored compared to their female counterpart (an extreme incarnation of the Matilda effect).

This highlights a worrying trend among Spanish adults of increased prevalence not only of overweight and obesity but also of abdominal adiposity.

relation to India might have created awareness among medical students regarding proper use of antibiotics.[ 4 ] In both the phases of this study, most of the students who self-prescribed got symptomatic relief and further emphasized that they will recommend this practice to others, which itself is a worrying trend.

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

Early studies showed promising subjective and histological responses in both RCD1 and RCD2, 72 , 73 but a worrying trend to increasing progression to EATL in RCD2. 73 Good responses have been reported in RCD1 but not subsequently in RCD2. 38 Limiting its use to RCD1, the azathioprine metabolite, thioguanine (tioguanine), achieved an 83% clinical response and 78% histological response, but there was still a considerab

This is a worrying trend as it shows how prevalent vitamin D deficiency is in the population, which should warrant immediate attention.

gonorrhoeae to penicillin and other antibiotics, there is a worrying trend of antimicrobial resistance to the commonly prescribed antibiotics such as quinolones and cephalosporins.

Observing high levels of bleaching at any given time is often a worrying trend.

A worrying trend is the increase in the incidence of young people despite the growing awareness of healthy life style, the role of physical activity, and proper diet [ 1 ].

The increase of the use of substances to enhance sports-performance among adolescents and even pre-adolescents is a worrying trend because of the relatively unknown associated risks [ 13 , 14 ].