“an increasing trend”

Background In Malaysia, the number of reported cases of dengue fever demonstrates an increasing trend.

We found that levels of serum leptin (appetite-suppressing protein) decreased over the nesting season, while an increasing trend was observed in ghrelin (hunger-stimulating peptide).

Although there was no significant change in percentage of plaque compositions, fibrofatty tissue showed an increasing trend from baseline to 9 months follow-up.

In this study, the prevalence of different tobacco substances in 2003 was 13%, while in 2008 it was 26.6%, which showed an increasing trend ( 11 ).

Case Report History A 29-year-old male truck driver presented with a 4-month history of neck pain that was accompanied by left arm radiating pain and numbness that had an increasing trend from the onset, worsening significantly during the 15 days prior to the presentation.

Conclusion: The incidence of acute pancreatitis in Albania ranges from 3.6 – 5.64 new cases per 100 000 inhabitants per year, with an increasing trend during the last years.

On the other hand, FFM did not show significant variations in the NPI or the HPI group, even though there was a decreasing trend in the NPI (38.6±2.7 vs 38.9±2.8 kg) group, as well as an increasing trend in the HPI group (38.9±2.9 vs 38.5±2.6 kg).

Infertility has had an increasing trend during recent decades in Iran ( 1 ).

When the ‘not consumers before 2009’ are compared to the ‘always consumers’ group ( Fig 8 ), the relative risks of the ‘always consumers’ are always higher, however, there appears to be an increasing trend from 2011 onwards in the ‘not consumers before 2009’, which is not observed in the ‘always consumers’.

The weight of the control rats showed an increasing trend, and the weight gain was faster than that of the TAO rats.

In Iran, the prevalence of hypertension is high, with an increasing trend in recent years ( 24 ).

Although, our findings showed an increasing trend in publishing the papers in studied field with a significant R-squared value of 0.459, we found some temporary declines in years’ 2006, 2007, 2009, and 2014.

This is while in our previous study the incidence was 8% (2007 - 2008) suggesting an increasing trend of VAP incidence in TICU.

After corneal transplantation, aqueous humor MMP-9 in group III showed an increasing trend and peaked at postoperative day 90.

On the contrary, the sensitivity to discriminate CC from CIN 2 to CIN 3 had an increasing trend for serological markers anti-VLPs-L1 (0%–60%) and anti-E4 (0%–100%) with increasing years of TSA.

According to the statistical data of KHANES VI-1 (2013), the rate of subjectively recognizing obesity and the proportion of individuals trying to lose weight are showing an increasing trend. 17) This is encouraging on the one hand because the prevalence of obesity is estimated to be 30% in Korea.

Interestingly, in the Nox sample, PDC expression showed an increasing trend after 17 DIA throughout the experimental period, similarly to ACS and ACO genes, thus possibly in relation to the slow evolution of ripening under normoxic conditions.

Blue Point's and DPA’s combined share of distributed and collected syringes, and number of both all and new clients declined over time, but their combined share of client contacts showed an increasing trend (Fig. 2 ).

The third wave of transmission has provoked an increasing trend of HIV among Iranian females; the rate of HIV is 4.5 % for female sex workers [ 22 ].

An increasing trend in the negative attitude towards HIV patients was seen from 1 st to 4 th year when it came to right to refuse surgical treatment to HIV patient (40% to 56%) and an increasing trend in the favourable response towards HIV patients were seen from 1 st year to 4 th year when it came to their opinion whether HIV patients can be kept in general Ward (57.5% to 78%).

The prevalence of obesity in females showed an increasing trend from 13.6% in age group 15–25 years to 41.9% in age group 55–64 years.

Recent epidemiological studies in Minnesota showed an increasing trend in the incidence rates of RA from 1995 to 2007 in women of each age category [ 13 ].

The inter-cluster distance was computed for every time point, and an increasing trend was observed (from 2.6 units in the normalized feature space to 3.6 units).

Keywords: Bladder cancer, cigarette, drugs, occupational factors, risk factors status released display-pdf yes is-olf no is-manuscript no is-preprint no is-journal-matter no is-scanned no is-retracted no Introduction Nowadays, about 10% of deaths worldwide are due to cancers and it is estimated that the incidence of cancer worldwide would undergo an increasing trend.[ 1 , 2 , 3 ] Bladder cancer is a common cancer in the world.[ 3 , 4 ] Of cancers known and under investigation in the country, bladder cancer is ranked fifth,[ 5 , 6 ] however, in Kurdistan province it is ranked third in men and fourth in both sexes.[ 7 , 8 ] Overall, bladder cancer is the twelfth major cause of years of life lost due to premature death or disability per every 1000 people in Iran.[ 8 ] This disease is more prevalent in industrial environments.

If the process has increased in value compared to the reference the graph will show an increasing trend, and in the opposite case, if the trend of the graph decreases, the reference value decreases.