“an increasing trend”

This instability of lesions was most pronounced in adolescence and showed an increasing trend.

4 Most research has noted an increasing trend of snoring among younger generations (aged 30–50 years) as well as older ones (aged >65 years). 5 , 6 , 7 Snoring affects approximately 30% of middle-aged men and 20% of middle-aged women, respectively. 8 It is essentially an abnormal respiratory sound occurring during sleep and is the earliest and most consistent sign of upper airway dysfunction.

More importantly, an increasing trend of NTM disease is observed in North America (3–6% per year) [9] and Chine [10] , but not in Europe [11] .

1 According to the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), there were an estimated 133,354 new cases of NPC and 80,008 NPC-related deaths in 2020 worldwide, showing an increasing trend compared with 2018. 2 , 3 As a country with the highest incidence rate of NPC in the world, in 2018, the corresponding new cases of NPC and NPC-related deaths in China were as high as 60, 558 and 31, 413 respectively, and most of which were confirmed to be locoregionally advanced (LA) NPC at the ti

Both 1,25(OH) 2 D 3 and cediranib resulted in an increase in mRNA level for VEGFR3 ( p < 0.05, Figure 8C ), with an increasing trend in melanoma cells pretreated with vitamin D subsequently exposed to cediranib, yet without statistical significance in the latter.

Conclusion In summary, we collated all the HLA associations from the list of ~ 28 billion publicly available abstracts and observed review/associations with an increasing trend since 1975.

This decrease could be attributed mainly to the estimates from high-income countries, whereas low- and middle-income countries show an increasing trend corresponding to the rise in periodontal disease and dental caries.

In Table 1 , the age dependency ratio for older people shows an increasing trend, whereas the fertility rate in Malaysia shows a decreasing trend.

Although drought-stressed seedlings treated with exogenous Put displayed an increasing trend in both genotypes for all parameters, significant responses were recorded in SBT-010 only for Pn and water use efficiency (WUE) on the application of 0.3 mM Put.

In patients with COVID-19, the close monitoring of D-dimer level to screen for hypercoagulability is recommended; if there is an increasing trend, the introduction of heparin should be considered early in the clinical course.

6) Upper limb and lower limb amputation (Table 8-7 and 8-8) Upper limb amputation remained unchanged this year; however, leg amputations showed a decreasing trend from an increasing trend, and there is a need to observe the future course.

Although it is not clear yet if PES emerging popularity and implementation is reducing the rate of PA establishment, there seems to be an increasing trend toward promoting PES conservation actions rather than pursuing strict protection [ 18 , 19 ], even though conservation success of PES may be reduced in terms of slowing deforestation rates at least [ 20 ].

In the global context, the incidence and mortality of CLL in both genders displayed an increasing trend during the past 30 years, with males presenting a relatively larger proportion.

This was accompanied by an increasing trend in the frequency of polyfunctional T-cells over time, which was visible when considering both cells expressing two and three out of the three cytokines examined.

Adult female acne is not only frequent, but its prevalence has shown an increasing trend over the past few years, as a 5-year population-based study reported a prevalence of 1.71 per 1,000 population in 2015 and a prevalence of 2.94 per 1,000 population in 2019( 8 ). 3.

An increasing trend of metal dissolution can be ascribed to the physical phenomenon of increased collisions between the particles of the heterogeneous system. 30 , 31 Dissolution efficiency reached the maximum of 91% Pt, 94% Pd, and 87% Rh at 150°C; thereafter, increasing temperature showed a decline in PGM dissolution (87% Pt, 81% Pd, and 84% Rh at 150°C).

An increasing trend of annual isolation rate was observed in poultry markets from 2013 to 2015 and reduced from 2015 to 2018.

The control group had an increasing trend pre-post intervention for 120-day admissions and ACC had a decreasing pre-post intervention trend.

In publications, there is an increasing trend of denying the use of causal language.

While some discrepancies between these 2 systems have been found with chronic conditions [ 39 ], the small increase in the number of reported fungal infections between 2014 and 2018 fit with previous mortality analysis showing an increasing trend in the number of fungal infections [ 6 ].

Epidemiological evidence available in Western countries shows an increasing trend of obesity in males than females [ 28 ].

In the low, medium, and high groups, there was a decreasing trend of 83.9%, 51.3%, and 18.9% for the LPN procedure, respectively; on the other hand, there was an increasing trend for the LRN procedure.

The vertical sintering speed, yield, and sinter cup utilization coefficient show an increasing trend.

Those who answered that they were fat were 54.4%, 79.1%, and 87.7% in the Low, Middle, and High groups, respectively, indicating an increasing trend with increasing muscle mass.

At that time approximately 1500 new cases of coronavirus were recorded daily, 300–350 patients were hospitalized in intensive care units and 25–30 deaths per day were attributed to COVID-19, with an increasing trend, which was difficult to handle by the national health system.