“an increasing trend”

The fluorescence intensity (density) in the intact lenses shows an increasing trend up to the age of 50 years ( r 2 = 0.9 at λ Ex312 nm and r 2 = 0.94 at λ Ex365 nm; Confidence interval 95%).

This trend could indicate that patients with more serious medical problems are kept in nursing homes, as we found evidence for an increasing trend (a plus of 20,3% between 1997 and 2004) for institutionalization of elderly people in this area with a rate of 126 for every 1000 people aged 75 or older [ 10 , 13 ].

Although, there may be an increasing trend for elective spaying and neutering recently in Sweden, data from 1998 suggest that only about seven per cent of Swedish bitches and less than four per cent of males (all ages) are neutered [ 17 ].

Interestingly, β-galactosidase activity in complemented mutant cells followed an increasing trend which correlated to the plasmid accumulation up to stationary phase and was not dependent on the number of the generations. lacS gene expression was inducible by thermal stress, namely it was confirmed to be transcriptionally regulated by the chaperonin gene promoter.

With the finding of a novel function for the orphan snoRNA, HBII-52, there has been an increasing trend in orphan snoRNA research in mammalian genomes.

There was also an increasing trend in the age at first birth for the three ethnic groups.

Three daily smoking trend groups are identified: countries with a declining or stagnating trend, countries with an increasing trend followed by a decreasing trend, and countries with an increasing trend.

The national incidence rate is not available, but it is estimated that 1,200 new cases occur every year, and an increasing trend of cases among younger women has been observed.

Fusidic acid resistance showed an increasing trend with the proportion resistant isolates increasing from 22% in 1994 to 92% in 2004.

Endometrial cancer The incidence of endometrial cancer has shown an increasing trend in industrialised countries.

Reported incidence in Hepatitis A in Canada exhibits an increasing trend between the years of 1980 and 1996 (linear regression: y = 0.21x + 4.61, R 2 = 0.24; the R 2 value is low because of the recurrent outbreaks).

In all of the 3 subcategories examined, the annual number of published articles worldwide showed an increasing trend, a phenomenon that was more pronounced in the "Public Health" subcategory (Table 3 ), probably due to the gradual increase in the number of journals of the ISI category throughout the study period.

Meanwhile, an increasing trend with the number of episode was noted for the lifetime λ s except those of hypertension and low HDL in Cohort 1.

The concentrations of some of these compounds such as PBDEs show an increasing trend in Arctic marine mammals ( Ikonomou et al. 2002 ).

According to BDHS reports 1996–2004, there is an increasing trend in proportion of women identified media (both radio and TV) as their main source of information about AIDS (Figure 1 ).

An increasing trend of risk with increasing duration of use was found for sequential formulations but not for continuous-combined, although the confidence intervals were largely overlapping and the numbers in the strata for duration small in continuous-combined HRTs.

Many PAs have been recruited from other healthcare jobs, often as a second career [ 7 ], but recently, there has been an increasing trend towards applications from younger life science graduates, who are embarking on a first career.

The incidence ranges from 5–25 percent, shows an increasing trend, and has a significant economic and social impact [ 1 - 7 ].

These two influencing policies have resulted in an increasing trend in the number of tuberculosis patients treated by institutions other than tuberculosis sanatoria.

Similarly, according to the regular survey data undertaken by the Tobacco and Wine Monopoly Bureau, the smoking and alcohol consumption rates of adult women were relatively low in the early-1970s; there has, however, been an increasing trend over the last three decades for alcohol but not for smoking, as illustrated in Figure 1 [ 45 , 46 ].

An increasing trend in the incidence of and mortality from oral cancer has been observed recently in some western populations (Davis and Severson. 1987; Coleman et al.. 1993).

A positive correlation between ApoJ and Zn was also shown in the plasma of healthy old subjects and an increasing trend was observed post-supplementation.

Another alternative explanation is that there exists an increasing trend in the prevalence of MetS due to the adoption of a modernized life style.

Results An increasing trend toward the vasectomy procedure was observed during 2005 to 2007.

Alcohol consumption was associated with an increasing trend in risk of regional/distant tumours but not of earlier stage tumours, indicating that alcohol may be involved in late-stage events.