“an increasing trend”

At present, the morbidity and mortality rates of EC are exhibiting an increasing trend annually ( 2 ), and the overall 5-year survival rate is only 20% ( 3 ).

Following the rostrocaudal axis of AON divisions, the area fraction occupied by total LBs showed an increasing trend in AONb (quantified at the same time as NeuN in AONrb, AONca, and AONcp and independently by single immunohistochemistry in AONb) ( Supplementary Figure 2B ).

Recently, an increasing trend has been concern for GBS with reduced susceptibility to penicillin, and resistance to macrolide and fluoroquinolone ( Seki et al. 2015 ).

LE and HALE showed an increasing trend every year, varying significantly from year to year, with the overall effect being positive ( Figure 1 ).

As pre-pandemic data were not collected, we are unable to compare with ‘usual’ levels of distress and quantify the influence of the pandemic on the reported scores, yet because of the longitudinal nature of the study, we can reliably report an increasing trend of distress and rates above normative data at each time point. 2 , 3 Our findings show that rates of psychological distress and trauma in doctors increased further during January 2021 compared with the initial pandemic peak (April 2020).

On the other hand, in the overfeeding group, the relative abundance of the dominant phyla of bacteria in each part of the intestinal tract changed with time, i.e., the relative abundance of Firmicutes showed a decreasing trend at the earlier stage and an increasing trend at the later stage, while the relative abundance of Proteobacteria showed an increasing trend at the earlier stage and decreased at a later stage.

This remarkably high growth rate of thyroid US publications seems to be related to the increasing clinical role of thyroid US in the management of nodular thyroid disease, which is closely related to “thyroid cancer” and “thyroid nodule,” the topics showing an increasing trend between 2006 and 2015 [ 6 ].

In the level of intestinal microbial families in each group, Lachnospiraceae in the PLC group and JWXY group was significantly increased with a significant difference, while the content of Lachnospiraceae in the JWXY group also showed an increasing trend when compared with the PLC group, but there was no significant difference ( p > 0.05).

The number of medications and diseases showed an increasing trend from 2016 to 2018.

There were several significant differences in age categories: a decreasing trend of male predominance and serum HbA1c and eGFR levels and an increasing trend of the duration of diabetes as age category advances.

The species richness and diversity appear to be an increasing trend at 3 days after fluoride application, which suggests that dental plaque microecology was more diversified after fluoride application.

(2) With the increase of undercooling, the induction time of methane hydrate decreased significantly, and the increase in the methane consumption also showed an increasing trend at first and then decreased.

1 , the MAE showed an increasing trend as the WBGT increased, and this phenomenon was observed for all three models that we examined.

Although no significant difference was found in HOMA-IR or HOMA-β between the AGM group and the NGT group, an increasing trend in HOMA-IR was observed in the AGM group.

During the 2015–2018 period, total factor productivity showed an increasing trend, but it showed a downward trend in the 2018–2019 period.

Longitudinal Changes of Anxiety and Depression in Bladder Cancer Patients The HADS-A scores of patients with bladder cancer gradually increased from baseline to 3 years ( P = 0.004, Figure 1A ); meanwhile, the anxiety rate also disclosed an increasing trend from baseline to 3 years (but lacked statistical significance) ( P = 0.054, Figure 1B ).

The ridership witnessed an increasing trend till 2017–2018 before metro fare revision.

Among clusters (CTL1/2/3/4) of cytotoxic CD4 + TCR-Ts, expression levels of LTA had an increasing trend towards the later stage of CTL clusters ( Figure 4G ).

We detected a significant upregulated PKCβ1 and RhoA ( p < 0.05) in the presence of sericin at 1.0 mg/ml as compared to KSFMs, while the expression of RasGFR displayed no significant differences although showing an increasing trend with LMW-sericin treatment.

The prevalence of HIV was 43% (39%–47%), showing an increasing trend from 21% in women aged 15–19 years, up to 57% in 35–39 years old (p for tend<0.001), to then reach a plateau of about 40%–45% in women 40 and older.

Additional Sociodemographic Factors (Model 3) Fovea curvature showed an increasing trend in curvature steepness with increasing annual income in males ( p for linear trend 0.005).

6 , 23 - 25 With an increasing trend and popularity among surgeon using posterior approach to achieve circumferential stabilization, it is important to assess the economic aspect of available surgical technique and its role on overall outcomes.

During the follow-up period, the degree of TK presented an increasing trend that remained almost constant after the 1-year follow-up.

YRB inputs a large amount of nutrients into the estuary annually, among which the content of dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) has shown an increasing trend, which is also an important reason for estuary red tides (Yan et al. 2010 ; Dai et al. 2011 ).

There are no review articles on teachers’ perceptions and frameworks to build curricula for moral education despite an increasing trend.