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An increasing trend of anemia was associated with advancing CKD stage (Fig. 1 ), that is, 22.4% in stage 1, 30.0% in stage 2, 51.1% in stage 3, 79.2% in stage 4, and 90.2% in stage 5 (χ 2 trend = 675.14, P < 0.001). 3.3 Awareness of anemia Anemia awareness was 67.5% in the overall sample.

The BMI level did not show statistically significant association with VTE incidence, but overweight and obesity showed an increasing trend with high VTE (Table 1 ).

The analyses of all-cause mortality showed an increasing trend among the patients with both P4Ps participation, DM P4P alone participation, CKD P4P alone participation, and nonparticipation in high risk strata, including male, high age, high CCI, high DM vintage, and high CKD stages (Figure 1 ).

The percentage of PCCS utilization was increased 5-fold during the 9-year period after the promotion of PCCS In the program of PCCS promotion, an increasing trend of PCCS utilization, better patients’ and their families’ awareness of diagnosis and prognosis, more consent to DNR, more patients were discharged with stable condition at the end of PCCS and a decrease refusal rate of end-of-life palliative care among terminal cancer patients were observed in Taiwan between 2006 and 2014. status released display-pdf yes is-olf no is-manuscript no is-preprint no is-journal-matter no is-scanned no is-retracted no Received 2015 Sep 6; Revised 2016 Feb 1; Accepted 2016 Feb 10; Collection date 2016 Mar.

Our results show an increasing trend in IFBSCP values starting in the first years of the new millennium.

In Korea, domestic crimes conducted either by adolescents or targeting adolescents are an increasing trend.

8 , 10 , 29 , 35 A review of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery (ABOS) certification examination database from 2003 through 2008 for shoulder instability repair demonstrated an increasing trend toward arthroscopic Bankart repair, with the use of open Bankart repair declining among early career orthopaedic surgeons. 28 Recent studies have demonstrated a trend of equivalent outcomes and instability recurrence rates after arthroscopic and open Bankart repair. 3 , 6 – 9 , 11 , 14 , 24 , 37 The purpose of this study was to compare the time to recurrence of instability after open and arthroscopic Bankart repair techniques.

The sirolimus CL estimates in neonates and infants showed an increasing trend over time, after accounting for the effect of body size/growth.

They reported an increasing trend of BMI during the first sixteen years from 1957 to 1972, but a decreasing trend thereafter of Bangladeshi ever married women aged 15–49 years [ 15 ].

Similarly, of the 1469 detected proteins, 98 of them showed an increasing trend in expression levels.

When the length of domain b* was reduced to 7 nt, the S/B ratio reversed to an increasing trend (Figure 5A ).

The number of newly opened cancer trials over years showed an increasing trend as demonstrated in Figure 1 .

We plot the distribution of the evaluation drugs among all ranked list in figure 5(a) - (b) , and found an increasing trend for the number of positive drugs when the rank moves from the bottom to the top.

From May 2008 to April 2011, the trends of smear negative PTB showed a decreasing pattern while it showed an increasing trend in later years.

In Figure 3 , the positive slope of the meta-regression line showed that the relationship between depression and metabolic syndrome had an increasing trend with slow slope, but it was not significant (P = 0.06).

RF preparatory muscle activity showed an increasing trend from forward to lateral direction in this study.

Abundance and Community Composition of the N Cycling Microbial Communities The numbers of N cycling community genes ( nifH , AOA -amoA , AOB -amoA, nirK, nirS and nosZ ) generally presented an increasing trend along the time sequences.

During the follow-up, no local or systemic adverse events were observed and the patient was satisfied with the therapy after two months with an increasing trend by passing time.

6 In 10 year study, a decreasing incidence of injuries in the subsequent years was noticed, 7 but we found an increasing trend of injuries which was also consistent with the study done by others, 6 but our study was for a short period.

Furthermore, the ambient temperature has increased by 1 °C over the past 50 years and precipitation shows a significant increasing trend in the 1980s and 1990s, and the average annual precipitation shows an increasing trend with a magnitude of 6.8 mm per decade 37 , while warming has decreased soil moisture content and enhanced the potential for oxidation of CH 4 38 .

The mean adherence was lower in Ghana than in Malawi and there was a decreasing trend in acceptability over time in Ghana and an increasing trend in Malawi.

In their studies, the TB morbidity and mortality rates had an increasing trend with increase the immigration.

During the last decades, there has been an increasing trend of human leishmaniasis in endemic regions, and a corresponding dramatic increase in the prevalence of the disease [ 2 ].

Governorates grouped according to the number of native population, shows an increasing trend of governorates by population.

( 2006 ) investigated location of pain, number of painful locations and chronicity of pain and found that “the number of painful locations was associated with large variation in functioning, whereas the locations themselves were less important to the variation in functioning.” In accordance with these findings, we have consistently found an increasing trend of healthcare utilization with increase in number of pain sites, which is 28.5 % among those with single-site pain, rising to 47 % among people with four or more sites with pain.