… We documented time trends in overweight prevalence by SES in a multiregional sample of
lower-income countries. In the majority of countries the highest-wealth and -education groups …

… We aimed to examine time trends and sociodemographic inequalities in the prevalence of
… in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) that investigated trends in adolescent …

… We hypothesised that CRF declined since 1981, with the rate of decline possibly slowing
over time, and that temporal trends in income inequality would be inversely associated with …

… unobserved country differences and global time trends. The covariates ( Embedded Image
… Then using a stepwise process, we identified the most parsimonious set of country and time …

… Furthermore, time trends are already apparent in societies in transition. A 56% increase in
incidence of cancers occurred in the rural Qidong province of China between 1978 and 2002, …

… increased more in middle-income countries (low income, 0·66%; middle income, 0·98 %), …
in lowincome countries (low income, 0·07%/year; middle income, 0·04 %/year). Time trends …

… high income and 11 were middle income. The remaining 29 countries were middle, low, or
very low income … mortality reduced by 12 times in OECD countries, seven times in Central and …

… an increasing trend throughout the study period resulting in a slope coefficient of the trend
analysis … transformations, we inferred that the seasonal time series could be explained by the …

… Trend analysis We examined time trends in the stroke prevalence estimates from 1970 to …
This method allows for estimation of time trends across individual calendar years to obtain …

… Exploring temporal trends in BW are important to … trends and regional variation of documented
BW and LBW categories over time and to explore possible factors related to those trends …