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In differentiating benign and malignant breast masses, there is an increasing trend to use VTQ measurement [ 15 , 16 ].

right no pmc-prop-is-real-version no pmc-prop-is-scanned-article no pmc-prop-preprint no pmc-prop-in-epmc yes pmc-license-ref CC BY-NC-ND Introduction With the growth of the aging population, and changes in genetic and environmental factors and social life style, the incidence of diabetes has shown an increasing trend worldwide ( 1 ).

Introduction With the changes in people's diet structure, such as the popularization of Western-style diet, incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) shows an increasing trend ( 1 ).

According to the report of the World Health Organization (WHO), the number of patients with bronchial asthma is up to 30 million in China, showing an increasing trend year by year.

Mortality in patients infected with Staphylococci (X 2 = 0.81, p = 0.991) showed an increasing trend, while the mortality in patients infected with Streptococcus spp.

However, there is an increasing trend toward intensity‐modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) techniques and VMAT. 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 In FinF and IMRT, there is a possibility to extend the field to the air outside the body to account for eventual changes of shape or swell of the breast tissue, but in Varian's Eclipse VMAT planning system the possibilities are limited to the use of an optimization bolus.

In Norway, there is an increasing trend in bioenergy production, peaking in 2010.

An increasing trend of index was observed from Baseline to T2.

After 7 days of cell culture, both LIVE/DEAD and CCK-8 assays showed that the cell adhesion and proliferation showed an increasing trend with the increase of inoculation time and loading of Fe 3 O 4 nanoparticles, suggesting that all substrates in this experiment have good biocompatibility and that Fe 3 O 4 nanoparticles coated onto titanium substrates can greatly improve the proliferation and growth of hBMSCs.

Results The result of self-administration of morphine demonstrated that animals in the morphine group showed an increasing trend in drug intake, during the 11 days, even after removal of food restriction.

The Harmony I study showed a significant reduction in the cataplexy rate from baseline to final visit (baseline >0.6 cataplectic episodes versus final visit <0.2 episodes in the pitolisant group; RR=0.38, 95% CI [0.16 to 0.93]; p =0.034), whereas Harmony Ibis showed an increasing trend (0.84 episodes from baseline compared with 1.69 episodes at the final visit in the pitolisant group with no statistically significant difference versus placebo p =0.077).

Several studies reported that P16 INK4a promoter methylation was associated with an increasing trend in ovarian cancer, 20 – 23 while, other studies suggested that P16 INK4a promoter methylation was not related to the occurrence of ovarian cancer. 24 – 30 Interestingly, even the conclusions in two published meta-analyses were inconsistent.

Figure 6 shows that there is an increasing trend in mortality rate estimates over the period 2005 to 2012 at hospital 3.

Therefore, an increasing trend towards surgical management of scapular fracture has been described, particularly for those fractures associated with glenoid neck and body fractures and with lesions of the superior shoulder suspensory complex [ 4 , 5 ].

In Switzerland, about 0.3% of the population has used electronic cigarettes daily 38 and approximately 16% of the heavy smokers relied on non-tobacco nicotine items to stop smoking, with an increasing trend of electronic cigarettes as the first choice 39 .

The national disease reporting system reports an increasing trend in clinician-diagnosed typhoid from 480,000 in 2001 to 1,800,000 in 2015.

these two assumptions resulted in an increasing trend compared with the 1970s or the 1980s.

Alteration in psoriatic skin microbiome diversity is site specific and exhibits an increasing trend in alpha diversity and greater heterogeneity compared with healthy skin The diversity of the microbial community in a given human body site reflects the structure and composition of the community.

DM is currently one of the global public health problems and shows an increasing trend year by year.

One of the earliest studies on progesterone in pregnancy showed an increasing trend of plasma progesterone from conception to delivery [ 12 ].

The WBC count in the three CARD8 genotypes showed an increasing trend (AA<AT<TT).

Incidence of breast cancer shows an increasing trend and ~1,400,000 breast cancer patients are diagnosed each year and the mortality rate is as high as 36% ( 2 ).

s-real-version no pmc-prop-is-scanned-article no pmc-prop-preprint no pmc-prop-in-epmc yes pmc-license-ref CC BY-NC-ND Introduction At present, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the second most common cause of cancer-related death in China, and the incidence of HCC in recent several years has shown an increasing trend ( 1 , 2 ).

The number of elderly patients affected by gastric cancer has shown an increasing trend.

op-has-supplement no pmc-prop-pdf-only no pmc-prop-suppress-copyright no pmc-prop-is-real-version no pmc-prop-is-scanned-article no pmc-prop-preprint no pmc-prop-in-epmc yes pmc-license-ref CC BY-NC-SA Introduction Acute ischemic stroke (AIS) has a recurrence rate of 13% by 1 year that accounts for an increasing trend toward elevated global burden of stroke.[ 1 2 ] Around a quarter of AIS patients notice stroke symptoms on awakening (wake-up stroke [WUS]),[ 3 4 ] and no clear time of symptom onset could be ascertained in these cases.