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The percentage of unmarried women aged 21–29 years who had ever been pregnant has shown an increasing trend from 53% in 1996 to 67% in 2005 (p for trend = 0.357, p for change in trend = 0.252).

There is an increasing trend for those who pay for surgical interventions, such as total hip replacement, to want to use simple scoring systems in order to 'triage' patients as suitable or unsuitable for surgery.

Management of post-partum HELLP syndrome In most women with a HELLP syndrome, the maternal PLT counts continue to decrease immediately post-partum with an increasing trend on the third day [ 6 ].

The biggest evidence for safety is probably related to the lack of aspiration related morbidity in recent years, 7 in spite of an increasing trend to feeding in labour over the past decades. 9 10 Aspiration pneumonitis/pneumonia is significantly associated with intubation and ventilation. 33 In modern obstetric practice it is the use of regional anaesthesia, thereby avoiding intubation, rather then fasting regimens that is likely to have reduced mortality from aspiration.

We observed an increasing trend and strong seasonal pattern in CDAD hospitalizations.

Based on similar observations of an increasing trend in reported gonorrhoea infections among people 45 years old and older, the need for interventions, aimed specifically at this group, has also been emphasised in the UK [ 24 ].

Although an increasing trend in suicide rates was observed in both young and elderly people, age-differential effects on suicide were displayed in opposite directions, in terms of absolute and proportional suicide mortality comparison.

Transcripts with an increasing trend of expression during floral initiation Induction of putative floral homeotic transcripts Two thirds of the sequences in cluster 4 are predicted to encode various members of the MADS-box family of transcription factors ( Table S1 ).

Population-based studies suggest an increasing trend for incidence of first attack acute pancreatitis (FAAP)[ 5 , 6 ] although it is unclear to what extent this might reflect changes in population age.

For both the IWQOL-Lite and the EQ-5D, improvements in HRQOL scores were observed in an increasing trend across the weight change categories, although effect sizes for the IWQOL-Lite were much larger (Figure 1 ).

There is an increasing trend of establishing an equal partnership with scientists from both the North and the South.

Annual mean temperature demonstrated an increasing trend but this was not statistically significant (p = 0.0533, Figure 1 and Table 1 ).

[ 1 ] have also observed an increasing trend in the average magnitude of discrepancies over time.

Background Over the last decade, nosocomial infections due to Acinetobacter baumannii have been described with an increasing trend towards multidrug resistance, mostly in intensive care units.

Two thermal-relaxation timescales were observed experimentally for such non-radiative process: a faster component, τ 1 corresponding to thermal conduction and a slower, τ 2 , representing thermal convection, both of which show an increasing trend for longer chain alcohols.

Rates of infection with Giardia and Cryptosporidium have shown an increasing trend, but rates of infection with Entamoeba histolytica and its non-pathogenic asymptomatic variant E. dispar have tended to decrease.

There is an increasing trend towards integration of in situ (on-line) spectroscopic measurements (particularly of reactions), real-time analysis of the spectroscopic signals, and feedback control to feeds, and dosing units in order to achieve desired reaction rates or selectivity.

If likelihood of probe detection was related to dilution, one would expect either the depth of the black columns (and correspondingly the height of the grey columns) to follow an increasing trend with increasing dilution or a decrease in number of grey lines overall with increasing dilution.

Concentrations of K + in the GIT fluctuated greatly in SW with an increasing trend in rectal fluid, somewhat similar to that observed in teleosts (Marshall and Grosell 2006 ).

More specifically in case of 4644T>A, we observed an increasing trend in the frequency of the A allele in disease activity being lowest in cases of remission (19.4%), 25% in moderate category, 26.2% in mild and 38.9% in severe category, however the differences did not reach statistical significance.

In contrast, the nuclear and mitochondrially-encoded mitochondrial genes both show an increasing trend in expression level across development.

Transcript abundance for TNC in repair tissue demonstrated an increasing trend by RT-qPCR, though significance was not achieved (Figure 6 ).

Evidence of an increasing trend [18] or a stable level [7] , [19] in CD4 cell count might reflect a shorter study period.

Bangladesh typifies many developing countries experiencing an increasing trend in tobacco consumption.

The opposite was true for walking with an increasing trend observed in women aged under 30 years.