The phrase "despite the increasing trend" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to introduce a contrast or an unexpected outcome in relation to a growing tendency or pattern.
Example: "Despite the increasing trend in online shopping, many brick-and-mortar stores continue to thrive."
Alternatives: "in spite of the rising trend" or "regardless of the growing trend."
1, 2 Despite the increasing trend, the disease-specific mortality remains low with overall 10-year disease-specific survival above 90%.
A point worth noting is that despite the increasing trend of obesity and deterioration in physical fitness during the study period, no simultaneous increase in LBP hospitalisations was seen.
Furthermore, epidemiological studies suggest that despite the increasing trend for surgical exploration for suspected appendicitis over the years, the incidence of perforated appendicitis has been similar across all age groups.
Thus, despite the increasing trend in the proportion of second-eye surgery observed in Catalonia and a projected proportion of around 36% in 2007, a substantial proportion of patients will probably not undergo this surgery.
Despite the increasing trend in the use of technical devices by physicians, with adoption rates ranging from 45% to 85% in recent years [ 14, 15], there are few studies evaluating and comparing the usability of smartphones, tablets, and stationary computers.
Despite the increasing trend of utilising radial access for a coronary angiogram and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), femoral artery access haemostasis is still an integral part in the field of interventional cardiology.
Hence the increasing trend towards tactical voting.
However, despite this increasing trend there has been no general account of all these works in terms of how they relate to each other and what their real achievements are.
However, the current C-section rate in Cambodia, despite an increasing trend, remains at around 4%% of the total number of reported institutional deliveries.
Despite an ever increasing trend to the recording of national unique numerical identifiers we would argue that probabilistic record linkage using traditional person identifiable data still provides the flexibility to link with data sources not compatible with such a key.
Despite realizing increasing trend of CRC, health promotion regarding this disease is not highlighted by the Ministry of Health compared to other cancers such as lung, cervical and breast cancer.
