“an increasing trend”

Telomerase activity showed an increasing trend in normal gastric mucosa during atrophic gastritis and IM dysplasia [ 51 , 52 ].

Dimethyl trisulfide and diallyl disulfide concentrations showed irregular, downward trends, while 2,6-dimethylpyrazine concentration exhibited an increasing trend.

There is also an increasing trend in considering the NANP scaffolds for the controlled immunomodulation, wherein control is provided by several means including but not limited to modifications in the nanoparticle physicochemical properties (e.g., composition, size, shape, sequence complementarity, connectivity), delivery vehicle, dose and route of administration [ 76 , 81 , 82 , 86 , 87 ]. 3.2.

In 2015, the Central Pollution Control Board, India, has estimated that 169,913 health-care facilities (HCFs) of India have generated approximately 495.30 tons/day biomedical waste, which roughly translates into 0.5–2 kg/bed/day.[ 4 5 ] With newer complicated diagnostic and treatment modalities getting introduced every day, this volume has shown only an increasing trend.

However, as a result of the growing supply of HCV seropositive donors from the recent opioid epidemic along with the advent of efficacious DAA therapy to treat HCV recurrence, there has been an increasing trend to use HCV seropositive donors for both HCV seropositive and seronegative recipients.

Given the increase of aging population in China, incidence of femoral intertrochanteric fracture shows an increasing trend.

The prevalence of diabetes mellitus has shown an increasing trend, in conjunction with hypertension trends 25 , 26 , 27 .

The prevalence of gastroesophageal reflux in Asia is lower than that in Europe and America, whereas there is an increasing trend in Asia in recent years [ 3 ].

The change in the prevalence of obesity carried over to mortality, where among those with HIV and obesity there was an increasing trend of mortality, an average of 21.75% per year.

Sickness absence in Sweden has been changing with an increasing trend of psychiatric disorders (stress, in particular), reaching around 35% of all sickness absence in 2014 and a decreasing trend in musculoskeletal disorders, falling to 27% by 2014 [ 26 ].

Attendance at ANC Almost all women stated that they visited the health facility when they missed a period, and most healthcare providers had observed an increasing trend in early initiation of ANC.

Moreover, the study done in Debre Brehan Referral Hospital indicated that among 8626 pregnant women who obtained delivery services, 340(3.9%) of them had hypertensive disorders with an increasing trend from 1.8% in 2011 to 5.7% in 2014 [ 6 ].

An increasing trend towards the formation of smaller offspring nuclear families, the progression towards widowhood, worsening health conditions, limitations on physical mobility, and natural selection of mortality among peers, exposed older people to the threat of physical and social isolation.

In addition, an annual report from Louisiana showed an increasing trend in the incidence rate of GBS between 1999 and 2007.

The TT median showed an increasing trend with aging, and the cFT median gradually decreased with aging in the three groups of 40 to 69 years.

A recent study showed that there is an increasing trend of the prevalence of EP worldwide.

Among all the treatments, an increasing trend in the syneresis percentages was observed from Day 0 (38%) to the 21th day of storage (71.42%) ( Figure 2 ).

As shown in Figure 8 , with the heating rate increasing from 0 to 20 °C/min, the apparent porosity possesses an increasing trend; however, when the heating rate further increases to 30 °C/min, it decreases slightly because of the pores’ shrinkage caused by the hydration of the matrix surrounding the pores [ 35 , 40 ].

Figure 3 clearly illustrated that with the capitulum development from S1 to S3 after shading, (1) the proportion of upregulated proteins related to cellular process, cellular metabolic process, organic substance metabolic process, biosynthetic process, organic substance biosynthetic process, and cellular biosynthetic process under the biological process category increased; (2) under the cellular component category, an increasing trend was found for the proportion of upregulated proteins related to 13 biological processes, such as cell, cell part, intracellular, intracellular part, and cytoplasm; and (3) within the molecular function category, the proportion of downregulated proteins involved in ion binding, nucleoside phosphate binding, nucleotide binding, small molecule binding, anion binding, and nucleoside binding increased ( Figure 3 ).

In contrast, CTE x in the x direction exhibits an increasing trend under the applied stress condition ( Figure 7 a, CTE x ).

Furthermore, the observed trend in prevalence of measured osteoporosis in this study also corresponded to the study by Looker et al., which reported that the prevalence of osteoporosis had an increasing trend in older (50 years and above) US adults between 2005–2006 and 2013–2014 [ 4 ].

In 42-day experiment, the changes of paw swelling volume and perimeter of AA + DHE group rats showed an increasing trend with time, while the changes of paw swelling volume of AA rats remained stable, and the changes of paw swelling perimeter showed a decreasing trend.

Additionally, the age dependency analyses revealed that these cross-sectional APTw/MTR signals had an increasing trend with age in most brain regions for normal controls, but a decreasing trend with age in most brain regions for aMCI patients.

In particular, we show here an increasing trend of environmental temperatures across the years of observation, related to increasing testosterone serum levels.

In contrast, despite having B cells detected ( Figure 3A ), comparable body weights (data not shown) and plasma lipids ( Figure S5 ), while atherosclerosis was an increasing trend with mice that received MHCII −/− and CD40 −/− B cells, it did not reach statistical significance ( Figure 3B ).