“an increasing trend”

With the deterioration of renal function, the expression of inflammatory cytokines (interleukin-6, tumor necrosis factor-alpha, among others) also show an increasing trend.

There seemed to be an increasing trend in use during the trial, with a peak in May and in December/January.

Conclusions We found an increasing trend of prevalence of LUTS/BPH with ageing.

Eκ ETR showed an increasing trend with irradiance in Fragilariopsis sp. and T. antarctica , remained unaffected by irradiance in P. subcurvata and was highest at 50 μmol photons · m −2 · s −1 in P. alata (Table 4 ).

The three parameters of retinal oxygen saturation showed an increasing trend with increases in age (Table 2 and Fig. 3 ), increasing from 80.7 ± 4.3 in 7‐year‐olds to 87.5 ± 6.9 in 18‐year‐olds for SaO 2 .

16 As there has been an increasing trend of insufficient sleep duration and sleep problems among children 17 and short sleep duration and sleep problems in infancy and early childhood may persist to later ages, 18 research is needed to investigate whether overweight contributes to shorter sleep duration and sleep problems in infancy and early childhood.

For the other HPV types, no trends were observed except for an increasing trend of HPV45 among unvaccinated women ( Supporting Information Table 5 ).

This means that if the system’s stability gradually decreases for a certain time interval before a critical transition, these statistics may show an increasing trend during that time interval.

Besides, an increasing trend of resistance to front line antibiotics such as ciprofloxacin and ceftriaxone in V . parahaemolyticus has been reported in China and other parts of the world.

The incidence increased mostly among patients who were in their 20s and has been on an increasing trend annually among the elderly who are above 60 years.

From May 13 to May 17 , there was an increasing trend in the incidence of cases; on May 15, the most confirmed cases occurred ( Fig. 1 ).

It’s increasingly recognized that human behavior affects the spread of infectious diseases, which has led to an increasing trend in incorporating human behavior into infectious disease modeling ( Wang, Andrews, Wu, Wang, Bauch, 2015 , Verelst, Willem, Beutels, 2016 ).

RESULTS Characteristics of patients A total of 23,828 ESDs for EGC were performed during the study period with an increasing trend according to the year; 1,931 cases in 2011 (November and December), 6,664 in 2012, 7,499 in 2013, and 7,734 in 2014.

This study contains five samples that are above 10%, with a maximum of 13.4% C THC and may indicate an increasing trend in cannabis C THC levels on the NZ market.

volvacea mycelia, first exhibited a decreasing trend and then an increasing trend during low-temperature treatment, suggesting that synthesis of mannitol was inhibited at the initial stage of treatment.

An increasing trend in vertical transmission was observed for the proportion of AIDS cases in both sexes.

Moreover, in both previous studies and our study, the morphology and distribution descriptors showed an increasing trend toward malignancy from amorphous/coarse heterogeneous to fine pleomorphic/fine linear/fine-linear branching microcalcifications and from regional/grouped to segmental/linear [ 1 – 4 ].

Results There was an increasing trend of tuberculosis cases in patients under 20 years old and 20–39 years old, especially in males.

The resistance rates to levofloxacin and amoxicillin, as well as multidrug resistance, have demonstrated an increasing trend.

There was an increasing trend for Brazil (APC = 1.3% CI95% 0.6; 2.0) and the Southeast region (APC = 1.5% CI95%0.2; 2.7).

Results We observed an increasing trend in the proportion of the Damaged TG group when the age increased from 20 to 40 years; thereafter, the proportion of the Damaged TG group started to decrease with age in men (Fig. 2 ).

No police complaint was initiated by any of them.[ 19 ] A retrospective study conducted to analyze the reported data on violence against doctors from 2006 to 2017 included 100 incidents and showed an increasing trend in recent times.

Those two patients showed an increasing trend in the As-IgG levels and their fungal infection was later worsened.

Introduction Pituitary adenoma (PA), one of the most frequently seen benign pituitary gland neoplasms, constitutes about 10–25% of all primary intracranial tumors ( 1 , 2 ); moreover, the prevalence of PA is showing an increasing trend ( 3 ).

By ordering the segments by age, function or reproductive stage, an increasing trend can be observed, which is especially pronounced for S. latissima with younger or reproducibly active tissue containing some of the AsSugPLs in significant higher amounts than older thallus parts.