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Although less than 10% of sexually active Rwandan males reported commercial sex or multiple sex partners, the levels show an increasing trend from the 2015 RDHS (1.9%) and are much higher than the average of 27 African countries (4%) (Seidu et al., 2020 ).

An EAPC > 0 indicated an increasing trend, whereas an EAPC < 0 indicated a decreasing trend.

del MRA manual record abstraction NA not available / missing value category TAVR transcatheter aortic valve replacement Observational studies account for a substantial portion of published clinical research, approximately 75% of the studies in PubMed, with cross-sectional and cohort studies showing an increasing trend in recent years. 1 Furthermore, although randomized controlled trials are at the top of the evidence pyramid in clinical epidemiological research, there has been growing recognition of the need for real-world evidence to bridge the gap between clinical trials and everyday clinical practice. 2 One o

While LAS40 showed an increasing trend and RMS values showed a decreasing trend relative to the horse’s own preoperative baseline, these parameters remained within the healthy young horse reference range.

Temporal trends in TBI and alcohol consumption The findings indicate that TBI among older patients demonstrated an increasing trend.

From 2005 onwards, the number of genomic samples increased significantly, fluctuating markedly from 2020 to 2024, with a decreasing trend from 2020 to 2022 followed by an increasing trend from 2023 to 2024 (Table S2).

The amplitude of the late positive component (LPC) during the later 400–600 ms time window showed an increasing trend, although the statistical strength was relatively weak.

Alteromonas also showed an increasing trend but without significant differences ( P >0.05, Figure 2C ).

The bull’s gut community was dominated by the same core taxa as the females and it showed an increasing trend in relative abundance of Ruminococcus_E , as well as an unclassified member of Butyricioccaceae .

In contrast, NCGC00380820-01 exhibited an increasing trend following infection and was significantly different in the infected mice compared to the control mice from four weeks post-infection.

Currently there is an increasing trend to replace chemical synthesis processes with biotechnological routes based on microbial fermentations.

In recent years, infections caused by atypical pathogens, including CP, have shown an increasing trend, particularly in the post-pandemic period ( 15 – 17 ).

The results indicated an increasing trend in extraction frequency with advancing age.

Especially in the field of TCM, although the research using fNIRS to explore the neurobiological mechanism of TCM syndromes, monitor the central effect of acupuncture therapy and evaluate the brain response to Chinese medicine components has shown an increasing trend, it is still at the stage of method exploration and lacks systematic summarization of existing results and methodological reflection.

[ 10 ] Since mid-October 2023, Chinese surveillance systems have observed an increasing trend in respiratory infections caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae among children in northern China.

At the same time, CD8 + T cell count showed an increasing trend over time in all three groups (Figure 4 ).

Cat aggressions in Yucatan have shown an increasing trend, primarily affecting adult women with low post‐exposure prophylactic rabies vaccination in cats.

In HSV-1–infected HCECs at 0, 6, 12, and 24 hpi, western blot analysis showed an increasing trend in the protein levels of PANoptosis-related molecules (GSDMD, MLKL, CASP3, RIPK3, CASP1, PARP) and their active forms, although p-MLKL and c-CASP3 showed a transient, non-significant decrease at 12 hpi ( Figs. 4 A, 4 B).

In the spleen, the mRNA expression of IL-1β in the HM group showed an increasing trend compared to the H group, but this difference was not statistically significant (Fig. 2 D).

As shown in Figure 4b , the release amounts of pyrolysis gases for PSA‐EM, PSA‐MM, PSA‐ME, and PSA‐EE are 2273, 2365, 2496, and 2654, respectively, indicating an increasing trend.

Regarding octopamine levels showed an increasing trend following treatment; however, the difference was not statistically significant relative to the control group (t = − 1.43, p = 0.227; Fig. 14 C).

Reinforcing the public health outcomes data from 2018/2019 there is again an increasing trend in childhood obesity and poor school readiness at this early years’ child health developmental assessment point.

Additionally, the number of reports showed an increasing trend over time, with the highest number of reports in 2015 ( Figure 1 C).

In addition, we identified a population of hypofunctional macrophages that showed an increasing trend in the model group ( Figure 5A ).

Positive H5 detections in wastewater continued throughout the remainder of the study period, with an increasing trend observed beginning in October 2024 and peaking between November 2024 and January 2025 [ 42 ].