“an increasing trend”

Trabecular architecture weakening was also exposed by an increasing trend in trabecular pattern factor (+78.7% on day 18 (not shown)), representative of lower connectivity between bone fragments within the medullary canal.

We found an increasing trend in amount (lifetime average hours/week) and intensity (lifetime average MET-hours/week) of sports/recreational activity with increasing level of education.

It was noticed that S.CEA was on an increasing trend from July 08 and on 26/10/09, it reached up to 5.65 U/ml.

There was an increasing trend toward higher annual precipitation in the second observation period (2006-2009) compared to the first observation period (2003-2006).

The proportion of diarrhea hospitalizations attributable to rotavirus demonstrated an increasing trend with increasing income level ( Figure 1B ); the median for low-income countries was 20%; for low-middle income countries, 25%; for high-middle income countries, 31%; and for high-income countries, 34%.

The model does however predict an increasing trend in lobster catch at the end of this period, corresponding to the observed catch record ( Figure 5 ).

The com- parison of serum TSH level in patients of study and control groups showed an increasing trend towards the higher side of the normal range in study group and the difference was statistically significant.

However, the increasing number of population together with the increased awareness about health matters resulted in an increasing trend of medical practice litigations.

HIV seropositivity showed an increasing trend with the increase in age ( Fig. 2 ).

Although there is an increasing trend over time, the trend does not increase significantly for facility-based births.

Such a method is important as there seem to be an increasing trend in using combination of preservatives, not only in pharmaceutical formulations but also in food industry and cosmetic products.

Recently, there is also an increasing trend of GOS production in Europe.

Moreover, there was a decreasing trend in US per capita consumption of dietary saturated fats in 1970s-1990s (Figure 7A , open cycles) and cholesterol from mid-1940s to late 1990s (Figure 7C , open cycles), with an increasing trend in the consumption of dietary fiber from mid-1960s to the early 2000 (Figure 7E , open cycles).

Laparoscopic Pubovaginal Sling Suspension Because of the high incidence of ISD in stress incontinence and the observation of decline in continence after bladder neck suspension, there is an increasing trend to recommending pubovaginal sling for all stress incontinent patients across the board.

The dry weight per individual (μg) of all macrobenthic nematodes combined showed an increasing trend with increasing water depth, while the dry weight per individual of the meiobenthic GOM nematodes showed a trend to decrease with increasing depth.

For most of the proteins there was an increasing trend between the 5 th and the 8 th day after Fe starvation, indicating that the response lasts for several days after its induction.

1 , 2 , 5 , 7 - 9 , 11 , 13 , 21 - 27 Although the earlier reported incidence was 1 in every 3,000 to 15,000 live births, 1 , 4 , 5 more recently reported incidence in the USA was about 1 in every 1,485-4,000 pregnancies, thus indicating an increasing trend, and even more so in African-Americans. 2 , 5 , 7 , 8 , 14 - 16 , 25 , 28 - 32 This increased incidence may be due to better health awareness and improved diagnostic modalities. 27 But PPCM appears to occur more frequently in Haiti (1 in 300 live births) 25 and in Africa (1 in 100 to 1,000 live births). 6 , 9 , 25 A proper explanation for this much higher incidence of PPCM in some geographic areas is not yet known.

Thus, there is an increasing trend to initiate ECLS “early or electively in the operating room” in high-risk patients.

Recently, there has been an increasing trend of AKs presenting in younger patients, due in large part to elevated and prolonged levels of sun exposure [ 13 ].

Glycogen content levels showed an increasing trend in mdx:Myog -deleted muscle in our PAS staining.

An increasing trend of antipsychotic polypharmacy has been described in Western countries [ 4 ], and the prevalence rate is estimated to be between 27% and 60% [ 5 - 9 ].

In contrast, [β-carotene] followed an increasing trend with increased distance of malignancy; it was highest in close sites (1 + to 2 mm) (19.00 μM ± 7.81 MAD ), followed by close sites (0 + to 1 mm) (15.59 μM ± 9.53 MAD ), then positive sites (0 mm) (13.89 μM ± 6.23 MAD ).

The ratio of female-to-male patients (F/M ratio) for each kind of fracture always showed positive values in favor of women, with an increasing trend from the youngest to the oldest age group (Table 13 ).

Data from United Kingdom (UK) surveys indicate a significant prevalence of anaesthetist-performed RSIs, although there was an increasing trend of emergency physician-performed RSIs [ 4 , 9 , 10 ].

Statistics from the Malaysian population and housing census showed an increasing trend in women's labour force participation from 30.8% (1957) to 47.7% (2003) [ 1 ].