“an increasing trend”

Recent epidemiological studies have indicated an increasing trend in the prevalence of AIH worldwide, especially in male patients; this trend may suggest the alteration of environmental triggers of disease onset over time.

The following inclusion criteria were set for the study: i) The maximum diameter of the OM was not more than 5 cm; ii) up to three lesions per patient were present; iii) an increasing trend for computed tomography (CT) scanning was noted; iv) by positron emission tomography (PET) scanning, an accumulation of 2-(18F)fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG) with a maximum standardized uptake value (SUV-max) ≥2.0 was present ( 15 ); v) the OM lesion was judged as inoperable by the respiratory cancer board; vi) there was no history of radiation therapy for the target lesion; vii) the Karnofsky performance status (KPS) ( 17 ) was ≥60%; viii) the primary tumor was confirmed via pathology; and ix) the prognosis was expected to be >3 months.

These findings are in contrast with those of a previous study that showed an increasing trend for smoking in those with diabetes was significantly higher than increases in smoking prevalence in those without diabetes 10 .

The mt-1 expression showed an increasing trend in three and five day treated worms, while a reverse trend was observed for mt-2 (Fig. 4 c).

24 The results showed an increasing trend for caries affected teeth in children studying in the privately managed schools.

PD patients present several significant speech characteristics, including an increasing trend in the speech rate and a reduction in the total number of pauses.

2 (c), the emotion gradually showed an increasing trend.

Despite this low estimate in Rwanda and the noticeable improvement in maternal health services, the actual situation was showing an increasing trend in anaemia prevalence from a previous level of 17% in 2010 with huge variations at subnational level [ 29 ].

“Bone metastases showed an increasing trend in rural areas compared to that in urban areas.

Interestingly, there is an increasing trend to alternative therapies worldwide.

An increasing trend with advanced tumor stage and the percentages of CD8 + HLA‐DR/CD8 + T cells and CD8 + CD38 + /CD8 + T cells was shown in this study.

Based on the meta-analysis of the soil microbial diversity index in different cropping systems, Venter, Jacobs & Hawkins (2016) stated that only 15.1% and 3.4% of the microbial community richness and diversity index in the rotation system showed an increasing trend, and the changes in the soil microbial diversity index were closely related to the different rotation systems and the years of continuous cropping.

As per the analysis of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) based on WHO disease burden and mortality estimates (2015), there is an increasing trend of global deaths directly related to use of drugs.

While indicating an increasing trend during the period, the local production level decreased from 156,000 tons in 1990 to 127,000 tons in 2016.

In clinical practice, there is an increasing trend of adopting magnesium for the treatment of acute myocardial infarction, arrhythmia, asthma, pheochromocytoma, and postoperative analgesia [ 33 , 34 ].

The single-locus survival signature for TAM is also significantly enriched at the 7-month time point in the T47D RA experiment ( p = 0.0032), but not for ER+/HER2- despite an increasing trend in the proportion of CpGs contributing to enrichment in the same direction (‘up’) over time (Table 4 ).

The AH vales vary from 9 to 11.5 g/m 3 during March and mid-April months of 2020 and an increasing trend for mid-April to mid-May month, sometimes more than 15 g/m 3 in month of May.

ALT and AST levels showed an increasing trend, which slowed gradually, and the elevations decreased significantly from hour 4 to hour 6.

[ 13 ] showed an increasing trend of creatinine-normalised urinary cotinine values among asthmatic patients with the same smoking status according to the worsening of disease severity.

The cases and deaths depict an increasing trend that is also indicated by the predictions.

In Hungary, the oldest group of women (65+) was the only one with an increasing trend.

Notably, although PARP1 showed an increasing trend in the 116 kDa protein, the level of 89 kDa fragment was also enhanced, indicating that PARP1 gradually lost enzymatic activity.

From Figure 5 , the joint return period of the two stations showed an increasing trend with the increase of the drought duration and drought severity.

(c) The area with an increasing trend in S 3 Pre in Xinjiang, NXC, and SXC was roughly the same, with proportions of 81.62%, 82.93%, and 80.48%, respectively.

However, the content of glucono-lactone presents an increasing trend and gulonic-lactone shows small variations during fruit development ( Figure 2 ). 2.2.2.