“an increasing trend”

Although the prevalence of conventional cigarette smoking in the general population has declined, population growth, as well as persistently high prevalence of smoking in highly populated developing countries, translates into an increasing trend in the absolute number of active smokers [ 3 ].

We also detected an increasing trend to increase in the levels of CD3 + HLA-DR + , CD4, and CD8 T-cells in the LTV-treated compared with the LTV-untreated PTCy-haplo patients (median HLA-DR + activated T-cells:150/μL vs . 59/μL, p = 0.079, CD4 + and CD8 + T-cells are shown in Table 2 ).

The dry weight showed an increasing trend passing from the autumn to early-spring (ES) cycle, specifically in the FL system, where leaves also showed a higher leaf area ( Table 9 ).

Our UK study illustrated an increasing trend in the prevalence of social isolation and loneliness in parents of school-age children during the lockdown as was evidenced among emergency workers and other the quarantined populations. 57 73 However, this is the first study that investigated the level of loneliness in a population of parents with school-age children in the UK using both a direct and an indirect measure of loneliness.

The share of major infectious disease groups among the older population is showing an increasing trend over the years [ Figure 6 ].

parapophyseal and diapophyseal processes) shows an increasing trend posteriorly both proportionally to the corresponding centrum and absolutely.

The control group experienced an increasing trend in disease activity score over the course of the study, increasing to 1.62 at mid-intervention and 1.67 by the end of the study ( figure 5 ).

7.98 ± 1.82 pg/ml) while an increasing trend was observed in serotonin and prolactin (PRL) among schizophrenics in comparison to the control (196.98 ± 6.35 Vs. 77.98 ± 7.01 ng/ml and 32.43 ± 1.67 Vs. 15.76 ± 2.65 ng/ml).

Refusal to be transported to hospital following overdose events when emergency services were called showed an increasing trend over time.

We found an increasing trend of cumulative DPN prevalence over time.

Fifteen genes have an increasing trend with aging progression, and 23 genes had a decreasing trend.

On a brighter side, deceased donor [ 35 ], swap [ 36 – 39 ], and ABO incompatible transplants [ 40 – 42 ] are showing an increasing trend in recent years in LE.

Previous studies have shown an increasing trend of mental illness in aging seniors, with the most common diseases being dementia and depression [ 5 , 6 ].

Although an increasing trend was not observed in hepatocyte-, kidney-, and heart-derived cfDNA, we found a higher level for a WHO clinical score of 8 compared with 7.

As can be seen from the above, there is an increasing trend in pore diameter from sample A to H and similar tends are also observed in the air permeability from sample A–H.

The SARS group showed an increasing trend in the PLT count during the disease development period, similar to mild patients in the COVID-19 group and those in the AdV group, and a decreasing trend during the recovery period, similar to that in the severe COVID-19 and H1N1 groups.

In China, its incidence has an increasing trend (2.6%/year) in recent 5 years.

In Figure 1G , GLUT1, GLUT3, LDHA and PKM2 showed an increasing trend with the increase of pathological grade.

Interestingly, an increasing trend in neutralization resistance of Indian clade C envelopes to CAP256-VRC26.25 was observed in contrast to that with envelopes obtained from the African population.

The introduction of patient direct access (second quarter of 2013) was associated with the start of an increasing trend of MSK consultation (from 7.6 per 100 registered population at 2013 quarter 1 to 11.9% at 2013 quarter 4), the prevalence then became stable until the end of observation ( Fig. 2 ).

This indicates, to some extent, that temperature‐ and precipitation‐related extreme events (both independent and compound) have shown an increasing trend over the past few decades.

For instance, the NORM/NORM-Vet 2016 report showed an increasing trend of consumption for penicillins (J01C) from 1974 to 2012 in Norway—from about 3.5 to 8.5DDDs/1000 inhabitants/day.

The species accumulation curves of six of the 19 sites (sites # 1, 3, 5, 7, 18, 20) appear to have approached an asymptote by the end of the operational period, while accumulation curves of the remaining 13 sites show an increasing trend even by the end of the operational period ( S1 Fig ).

In addition, it was identified that hsa-miR-125b-5p, as a T-cell suppressor, had an increasing trend in the PD group at baseline and was significantly decreased in plasma EVs of PR patients after treatments [41] .

During venous occlusion, Hb and HbO 2 optoacoustic signals showed an increasing trend with time, followed by a drop in the values after cuff deflation.