“an increasing trend”

More recent studies reported that the prevalence of adult obesity has doubled in more than 70 countries during the past three decades [ 30 ]; the obesity rate of Chinese adults has also shown an increasing trend in recent years [ 31 ].

Figure 2 presented the results of four single-factor experiments, and it showed that the TPC value of ethanol concentration, temperature and time experiments exhibited a tendency of increasing first and then decreasing, while the solid–liquid ratio experiment showed an increasing trend first and then stabilizing.

Regarding genes associated with the carotenoid biosynthetic pathway, the expression levels of PSY , CRISTO , LCYE , BCH , ECH , VDE , and ZEP showed an increasing trend, whereas the expression level of NCDE gradually decreased.

However, there has been an increasing trend from 2009 to 2020, mainly due to notable increase in adolescent’s suicides.

Interestingly, the WIV + CT group displayed an increasing trend in Bacteroidetes .

In summary, FiO 2 is higher and shows an increasing trend over time in the weaning failure group, whereas it is lower and has a descending course in the weaning success group; respiratory rate shows a tendency to increase over time in the weaning failure group.

When looking at international trends, prior studies showed an increasing trend of early-onset CRC incidence in 19 countries and a decreasing trend in three countries (Italy, Austria, and Lithuania [ 40 ]).

3A , which clearly shows an increasing trend in the degree of dissymmetry.

The prevalence of CVD also showed an increasing trend, reaching 621 million in 2021, up by 2.19% from 2020 [ 32 ].

In contrast, the expression of CCL3 , CD163 and VEGFA genes showed an increasing trend in the 3DJPC/3DOBJPC-M2 groups when compared with the cell-free controls TCP/OBTCP-M2.

With varying prevalence rates and an increasing trend, particularly in the UK, this deprescribing prospective quality improvement project aimed to address the complexities and risks associated with MH polypharmacy.

Despite the fact that the incidence of infectious diseases has been on an increasing trend from year to year, since the COVID-19 pandemic, the situation seems catastrophic.

Cervical or uterine fixation using TVM as a uterine-preserving option showed an increasing trend in the respective curves for women over 50 years old.

Overall the accuracy of the four models showed an increasing trend, and eventually the accuracy converged.

Cold and hot spots of tourism efficiency Hot spot analysis is used to examine the spatial agglomeration characteristics of tourism efficiency and its decomposition in Zhejiang’s 63 counties, and the results for 2005, 2012, and 2019 are illustrated in Table 2 , revealing an increasing trend in the number of hot spots of the tourism comprehensive efficiency, while the number of cold spots decreased.

Conversely, ultrasonic vibration may introduce micro-texturing on the machined surface, leading to an increasing trend in surface roughness.

As the molar ratio of F to Ti content in the precursor solution increased from 0.1 to 0.3, the sensor’s response to 10 ppm formaldehyde exhibited an increasing trend.

The scenario is as follows. “Virtual employees, or employees who work from home via a computer, are an increasing trend.

The pore size shows an increasing trend with the increase in DG.

The pattern of distribution of taxa occurring only in one climatic belt, i.e., an increasing trend from the tropical to the cool climatic belt for cryptospores (7, 8 and 15 species).

It is observed that the inflection point concentration exhibits an increasing trend with the augmentation of laser power.

The levels of individual FFAs exhibited an increasing trend during cold storage for each fatty acid ( Figure 5 c).

It is evident that the Seebeck coefficient exhibits an increasing trend with rising temperature.

Furthermore, the results suggested an increasing trend in the incidence of neonatal herpes in Europe in contrast to the decreasing trend of HSV-2 seroprevalence, perhaps reflecting the increasing trend of genital herpes caused by HSV-1 in this region, and increasing maternal age associated with higher HSV-2 seroprevalence [ 15 ].

Results in the Context of Published Literature In the last few years, there has been an increasing trend in MIS utilization for gynecologic malignancies, with reassuring evidence on oncological outcomes and low rate of postoperative complications [ 1 , 4 , 6 , 17 , 18 ].