For example, fatality rate of the elderly people was high and had decreased less compared to that of young people, and "aging" contributed to increase the number of deaths of stomach cancer in total.
However, the decrease was less significant compared with other countries where smoking in workplaces has decreased to less than 10% after implementation of the ban on indoor smoking.
In contrast, the number of fatalities from traffic accidents has decreased to less than 30,000 per year, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's most recent data.
The effective diffusivity has decreased to less than 1/10 of the apparent diffusivity, as 1,000 days have passed.
The incidence of clinically localized PCa with concurrent lymph node metastasis has decreased to less than 1% in the United States but is between 10%and15%5% in other countries.
Often, patients only seek medical attention when the renal disease has progressed to the uraemic stage since adult patients are usually unaware of their advancing renal failure until the GFR has decreased to less than 15 ml per minute, namely end-stage renal disease [4].
Furthermore, over the 25-year study period, mortality in CNS and bone tumours has decreased by less than 1%.
These figures have changed during the last decades as the protein level has decreased to less than 40%, while the lipid fraction has increased till about 35% [ 4].
Furthermore, the number of unobserved pentapeptide patterns has decreased by less than one percentage point, while the non-existent hexapeptide patterns have decreased by approximately 7 percentage points for Swiss-Prot and about 15 percentage points for the genome set.
