“an increasing trend”

In a previous study analyzing developmental disorders within NHSPIC, an increasing trend in false negative proportions in the screening results (from 2.7% in 2008 to 30.2% in 2015) was reported, which could also be a contributing factor to our findings.

Analyzing Figure 4 , we can see an increasing trend in the number of publications starting in 2015, with the maximum value being reached in 2019.

One study, including 9895 subjects, showed that elevated AST levels were a risk factor of diabetes (elevated versus normal AST; OR:1.75 [1.32-2.32]), whereas AST within the normal ranges of quartiles 2, 3, and 4 was negatively associated with T2D risk compared with quartile 1 (Q2, Q3, Q4 versus Q1, OR<1, 95% CI <1) ( 25 ), indicating that the association between AST and diabetes risk may be a non-linear trend of initially decreasing followed by an increasing trend.

There has been an increasing trend of autoimmune conditions worldwide.

First, the levels of PHL, PHS, and PHR showed an increasing trend in China during the study period, while PH experienced a slight decrease.

Discussion and conclusions The WHO Global Tuberculosis Report 2022 provides that there has been an increasing trend in the number of TB cases, drug-resistant TB cases, and tuberculosis-related deaths worldwide in recent years, indicating that many TB patients are still not receiving proper diagnosis and treatment [ 1 ].

In-degree centralization of all relations showed an increasing trend in BC, which implies that the networks in BC became more centralized around a few popular actors.

pneumoniae infections showed an increasing trend, and the proportion of MR M. pneumoniae infections was highest in China [ 3 , 7 ].

However, the results of this study also showed an increasing trend of using HAS in the absence of clinical indication.

Although the paralyzable model exhibited cases where the OCR decreased with an increase in the ICR due to detector paralysis under certain conditions, the non-paralyzable model consistently showed an increasing trend of the OCR with respect to the ICR.

The analysis of mortality rates revealed that the N and the NE regions exhibited the highest mortality rates, demonstrating an increasing trend throughout the study period, particularly in the N region.

However, there was a significant decrease in the prescription of VKAs, while the use of DOACs exhibited an increasing trend (Fig 2 ).

According to sensory evaluation results of soy yogurt added different ratios of 7S/11S ( Table S1 ), the overall-acceptability showed an increasing trend with the increase of 11S, while its overall acceptability started to show a decline when 7S/11S was 1:3.

These aspects also need to be taken into account when considering the observation that the time-by-group interactions were often driven by both an increasing trend in the training group and a decreasing trend in the control group.

Furthermore, early age at menarche showed an increasing trend over the years.

Due to the adjustment of Shenzhen’s industrial structure and economic model, the cropland showed an increasing trend (+ 0.6%) from 2008 to 2013 (+ 1223.9 hm 2 ), and then showed a decreasing trend (− 1%) from 2013 to 2022 (− 2113.9 hm 2 ).

Abstract According to the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHSs), Zambia has shown an increasing trend in the percentage of married women using contraceptives in the last three decades.

( 21 ) reported an increasing trend of suicidal attempts during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to the rates reported in previous years.

However, research on university students shows an increasing trend of obesity among men ( 4 , 5 ).

Compared with the Control group, plasmenylethanolamine (pPE) content in the Model group was significantly increased, while ethanolamine lysoglycerophospholipid (LPE) content showed an increasing trend without statistical difference (this portion of the data is not displayed here).

During the period of the lake's decline, there has been an increasing trend in temperature and a decreasing trend in precipitation within the Lake Urmia Basin (LUB) 22 – 25 .

However, T 4 /T 3 ratio did not show any significant difference among all experimental groups with an increasing trend when MOLM inclusion level increased in the diet.

Discussion Data from the HIRA-NPS database collected between 2009 and 2020 revealed an increasing trend in breast surgeries for DCIS, with the majority being BCS.

Introduction Thyroid cancer (TC) is the most commonly occurring malignant tumor of the endocrine system, and its incidence rate has exhibited an increasing trend in recent years ( 1 – 3 ).

Moreover, there was an increasing trend of the safeguard efficiency with respect to the increase in the concentration of the inhibitor (100 ppm to 500 ppm) observed in weight loss, and PDP and EIS studies implies that the water-soluble inhibitor material can act as a good protecting agent during the industrial cleaning, pickling and descaling process.