“an increasing trend”

In the last decade an increasing trend for oral cancer in the Portuguese population has been reported ( 15 ), contributing to ranking Portugal as the second country in Europe with the highest incidence of lip and oral cavity cancer (Globocan, 2012).

The initial DHI was not significantly different between the three groups, but there was an increasing trend from groups I to III ( Table 2 ).

S1, we find an increasing trend of both correlations by increasing α.

Brazil shows an increasing trend of CPR, except for a drop in 1980, resulting into a near doubling of CPR from 0.1 to 0.19 between 1960 and 2006 (Figure 2 ).

In contrast, TIC curves for benign tumors have an increasing trend which can be used for classification of tumors[ 27 ].

Figure 1 shows soft tissue injuries dominated throughout all age groups with an increasing trend from younger to older age groups.

(2014) stated the total bacterial counts showed an increasing trend in fresh mozzarella cheese.

(2012) , the particle size of clotrimazole-loaded SLNs prepared using emulsification-ultrasonication technique exhibited an increasing trend with an increase in lipid concentration, whereas ζ-potential value tended to decrease with increasing lipid concentration.

For a given treatment, pH showed a decrease from day 0 to day 7 of ripening, however, it exhibited an increasing trend afterwards ( Table 1 ).

Unfortunately, several reports from LMICs have shown an increasing trend of childhood injuries, possibly related to the higher prevalence of these injuries as well as limited resources available to address the problem [ 3 – 7 ].

Pathological examination reveals histology of a seminoma in about 60 % of the cases, with an increasing trend [ 1 ].

Our observations suggest that by watching for an increasing trend in the NT-proBNP levels from the baseline, outcome can be predicted and this can facilitate institution of appropriate care and timely intervention.

However, most patients in ICSS underwent CEA more than 14 days after randomization, 20 whereas today there is an increasing trend to operate on patients much earlier.

There were no changes to the PICU population makeup, but an increasing trend in total admission and patient days over the course of the study.

Two of the 44 new confirmed clusters occurred against a background of a significant decreasing trend, and two occurred in association with an increasing trend and may have been a manifestation of that trend.

They observed an increasing trend in the size of the Ag NPs while increasing the concentration of Ag + or heparin.

A study in the US including data from 1999 to 2010 described an increasing trend in the prevalence of obesity amongst children and adolescents [ 18 ].

The neovascular development, in response to the tumor hypoxia, follows an oscillatory pattern with an increasing trend in time, reaching 0.5 by Day 17, whereas the pre-existing vasculature-to-tumor ratio remains fairly constant at ~0.1 after Day 6 as the growing tumor begins to co-opt the surrounding vessels.

Consequently, there has been an increasing trend in offering more expensive tests and imported drugs, which clearly contributes to the hospitals’ profits, which in also results in incentives for the doctors’ incomes.

On treatment with sertraline at different doses, it was found that the mean locomotor activity of Group 3 gradually increased until week 6, followed by a sharp fall by week 7, while that activity count for Group 4 and 5 were found to be in an increasing trend till week 4, following a steep fall by week 5.

There is an increasing trend to use laparoscopic techniques in pediatric urological practice for complex and reconstructive procedures on small children.

In contemporary hypospadias surgery, there has been an increasing trend to preserve the urethral plate where possible ( 11 ).

While there has been an increasing trend since 2008 in the use of outcome measures for informal carers in palliative care research, most measures used in these studies were developed more than 20 years earlier and may not adhere to current standards for measure development.

There was also no significant difference among the groups (P>0.05) despite an increasing trend.

This method accurately resulted in an areal coverage near 0 at the beginning of the experiment and an increasing trend for both stained and unstained images through 72 h.