… high in terms of magnitude and secular trend. Though upper-middle income countries accounts
for the largest prevalence of stroke, low-income countries have experienced the steepest …

… Background While secular trends in high-income countries show an increase in the
mean age at menopause, it is unclear if there is a similar pattern in low-income and middle-income …

… majority of studies showed a secular decrease in BP in children. Our findings suggest that
BP secular trends in the pediatric population do not parallel trends in overweight. This implies …

… Evidence against a secular trend in depression comes from a meta-analysis of 26 … <1% to
>25%) may have made it difficult to detect systematic secular trends in depression prevalence. …

… We will also explore secular trends in birth length as well as growth. … secular trend reported
in adult height from 1950 to 1990 was already present at age 2. In summary, the secular trend …

… These limitations arise from the descriptive nature of this review, which only summarized
the data on the secular trends of PA in adolescents, whereas a meta-analysis was not …

Background: Violence is a challenging modern epidemic worldwide. Less evidence is
available on the populations most affected by violence in recent decades. The aim of the study …

… We aim to focus on secular trends in dementia incidence only, that is, the number of new
cases in a population within a confined period of time. The scope on incidence was chosen …

… that it provided a reasonable explanation for recent trends in high-income countries, but that
‘its … Data on long-term time trends in smoking prevalence from middle-income countries are …

The goal of this paper is to present a new vision about the evolution of some economics-related
agents during the last one and half centuries, which when considered as a whole allow …