“an increasing trend”

There are studies that have shown an increasing trend of infection rate in 1–5 year old cats rather than in younger animals [ 42 , 53 ].

Within the single cytokine category, TNFα producers showed a higher frequency compared to IFNγ producers, and in some patients (such as PT#2) these cells showed an increasing trend post vaccination ( Fig. 2A ).

Previous studies have also found that the warming-induced decline in growth persists despite the fact that the water use efficiency of trees shows an increasing trend in many regions [12] , [13] , [14] .

However, there is an increasing trend of sexually transmitted infections among high-risk group such as HIV-infected patients, teenage with multiple sexual partners, and men who have sex with men (MSM).

falciparum malaria showed an increasing trend, but this was not statistically significant ( p = 0.210) when compared to healthy controls (0.103 ± 0.01).

Abstract Background Little is known about the epidemiology of HIV in Japan, though newly-identified cases amongst men who have sex with men (MSM) show an increasing trend.

The number of strains sensitive to all four drugs tested showed an increasing trend i.e. 6.9% to 21.4% [ Table 3 ].

TLC also showed an increasing trend and was 19,500/ μ l on the 18 th day after admission.

Thereafter, there was an increasing trend of diabetes risk during observation time, and after approximately a quarter of a year, diabetic individuals had a higher mortality than nondiabetic individuals.

Anecdotal evidence suggests there has been an increasing trend for admitted patients to be very sick with end stage disease and multiple co-morbidities.

Conclusion: Thus, in long-term ICU patients, an increasing trend of isolating nonalbicans Candida spp. continues.

The authors noted that there appears to be an increasing trend of elbow injuries in the NFL.

Recent estimations of its prevalence report that about 13-20% of subjects with COPD have the overlap phenotype [ 6 , 7 ], with an increasing trend in the elderly population (up to 50% in those aged over 70 years) [ 7 ].

Probably the most important finding from this study is that the authors did not find any evidence for an increasing trend of substance use, in contrast to features from the United States [ 10 ].

An increasing trend in systemic and superficial mycotic infections was evident from this session.

Our results indicated an increasing trend of mortality rate with age.

In patients who were still alive at 5 years there were significant decreases in CD4% and an increasing trend for biomarker values from baseline ( Table 4 ).

These incidents potentially predispose HCWs to infection with blood borne pathogens (BBPs), the most important of which are hepatitis c virus (HCV), hepatitis B virus (HBV) and human immune deficiency virus (HIV).[ 1 ] The American Centre for Disease Control (CDC) has estimated an annual rate of 385,000 needlestick and sharp injuries showing an increasing trend.[ 2 ] In November 2002, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that 2.5% of HIV contaminations as well as 40% of HBV and HCV positive cases among HCWs resulted due to occupational exposures.[ 3 ] Lack of documentation and reporting either the cutaneous injuries caused by sharp instruments or mucosal exposure to patients' body fluids are considered as a major pitfall to protect the HCWs.

However, as hundreds of traditional folk medicines have proven to be efficient for the treatment of diabetes with less tolerability and side effects, there is an increasing trend towards searching for more natural antidiabetic agents.

For the duplicability-connectivity correlation, we show through simulations that an increasing trend can be obtained by adjusting parameters to approximate genomic characteristics of the respective species.

cristatum displayed an increasing trend after nutrient addition and reached saturation when the N rate was higher than 5.25 g N m −2 yr −1 ( Figure 2 , Table S1 ).

In Pakistan, about 10% of adult population is having diabetes, ranking sixth with an increasing trend [ 13 ].

The authors specifically note the limitation of the general population job-exposure-matrix (DOM-JEM) used in this study: “The high prevalence of exposure is also a consequence of the nature of a JEM, namely to assign everybody in a given job code the same exposure, whereas individual assessments give the opportunity for attributing exposure to some people in a job but not others, and to take into account an increasing trend of diesel engines over time.

I could think of less than a handful that are off for prolonged period (GP21) " GPs perceived an increasing trend towards patients presenting with ‘work-related’ stress.

Additionally, mIL-4 does not affect the uptake of soluble or aggregated Aβ by astrocytes, though on longer incubation, there was an increasing trend in Aβ ingestion by the astrocytes.