“an increasing trend”

At present, with the improvement of China's economic level and changes in living habits, dietary structure and lifestyle, the number of individuals suffering from colon cancer in China shows an increasing trend.

The mean disc vertical diameter measurements showed an increasing trend from L1L2 to L4L5 with measurement of 9.0 (1.8) mm.

With increasing consumer awareness of sustainable and quality food production, there is an increasing trend in organic food production and consumption [ 22 , 23 ].

Introduction There is an increasing trend for consumers to demand the development of nutritionally rich foods while also moderating the quantity of digestible starch due to health concerns related to their high intake.

Recent studies have shown that its incidence rate has an increasing trend ( 1 ).

Despite a significant reduction in CMU-attributable disease, there was an increasing trend for the burden of disease attributable to DRs, LPA, and MRs in the country.

As we witness an increasing trend in fertility research, in the future the performance and accuracy of the SDF tests in defining the cause for male infertility may increase tremendously.

The study revealed a male/female ratio of 1.7:1 in PPM, with an increasing trend for female prevalence, which was 18.2% during 1981 and 2000, and rising to 47.6% during 2001 and 2015.

Subsequently, there has been an increasing trend of chemotherapy utilization in UTUC patients, based on the extrapolation of its benefit in bladder UC.

2d ) increase in the mid-latitude stratosphere, and the EP flux convergence has an increasing trend in the mid-latitude troposphere and in the mid- and high-latitude lower stratosphere.

The SRASR, like many other regions in the world, experienced an increasing trend in hot temperature extremes in recent decades, with substantial inter-annual and inter-decadal variations 11 – 14 .

We also investigated the migration and invasion potential following exposure for 6 weeks and found that there was an increasing trend (not significant) of cell migration (Fig. 5C ), and a significant increase in cell invasion for Ag75 (Fig. 5D ).

It is obviously that there is an increasing trend of HPV positivity, as well as HR and LR HPV infections during this period.

Introduction In the context of global warming, there is an increasing trend for the cultivation of crops with tropical and subtropical origins, such as maize, soybean, Miscanthus or Sorghum also in temperate climates, e.g., in Central Europe.

Due to the very rapidly increasing Xe chemical shift function as a function of decreasing Xe–H 2 O separation, propensity for closer solute-solvent encounters produces an increasing trend of the 129 Xe shift; one that displaces the shift maximum to a higher temperature than that of the density extremum.

The bactericidal activity was dependent on the TiO 2 concentrations, where 0.1% to 0.40% of matrix showed an increasing trend of antimicrobial activity [98] . nTiO 2 (nanorods) were incorporated into chitosan-poly (N-vinylpyrrolidone) scaffold to evaluate the antimicrobial property against E. coli, S. aureus, P. aeruginosa and B. subtilis [100] .

On the other hand, this finding is not consistent with previous studies in some cities of Iran that have reported an increasing trend of stroke in recent years. 8 , 17 It is worth noting that the duration of previous studies conducted in this regard in Iran was between one to six years.

The mean values in the AKI group showed an increasing trend from baseline.

Results In the course of the osteoarthritis, the concentration of biomarkers in joint synovial fluid showed an increasing trend.

Different distributions of blood groups across regions were found; additionally, genetic analysis revealed that the I O and I D allele showed an increasing trend from the north to the center, while the I A and I d allele tended to increase from the center to the north.

Basal respiration rate showed an increasing trend with increasing PS-NPs application.

This revealed an increasing trend in average divergence from the normal baseline, strongly suggesting that divergence analysis can efficiently capture the global dysregulation associated with cancer progression or risk factor exposure.

The former is a well-documented component of spasm of near reflex, where recent onset myopia develops, with a significant disparity in dry and wet refractions.[ 3 ] With the increasing use of screen-based devices for long hours, this entity is surely showing an increasing trend.[ 3 ] These cases indeed benefit with cycloplegic therapy (often require atropine 1% for few weeks) along with bifocal spectacles for temporary use.[ 3 ] The desirable option was, however, chosen by about one-third (31%) of responders in the survey [Answer 5, Table 1 ].

Although none of the comparisons achieved statistical significance against this adjusted threshold, there is an increasing trend in the classification performance of our proposed method compared to other techniques.

The weight of the gizzard and proventriculus within a certain range was on an increasing trend and would also lead to decline if over-feeding, this might due to the factor that excessive alfalfa flavonoids affected the palatability of the diet.