"trend to decrease" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a pattern or movement of something decreasing over time. Example: "There has been a clear trend to decrease in the use of plastic bags as more people are becoming environmentally conscious." In this sentence, "trend to decrease" is used to describe the pattern of decreasing usage of plastic bags.
Compared with HC, HCN had a trend to decrease the percentage of Prevotella, and to increase the abundance of Succiniclasticum, Acetivibrio and Treponema.
Results have shown that, in the fresh electrodes, Pt is in the oxidation state of ca. +2, with a trend to decrease upon potential cycling.
Overall, implantation of CRT in patients with asymptomatic and mild HF resulted in improved cardiac function, decreased progression of HF, trend to decrease of mortality in short to long-term follow-up.
Integrated muon intensities have been found to increase as the atmospheric depth decreases up to slightly above 200 g/cm2, and then they have a trend to decrease at lower atmospheric depths.
Finally, it is underlined the recent trend to decrease the wall thickness of these medical devices, as well as the development of metal alloys with higher strengths, coatings to attract endothelial progenitor cells, the introduction of additive manufacturing and finally, the evolution to biodegradable stents.
It was found that: (a) the ratio between the fracture energy measured by the work-of-fracture method (GF) and by the size effect method (Gf) matched the value estimated by other researchers (GF/Gf ≈ 2.5); (b) generally, GF increases as the concrete compressive strength increases; and (c) the values obtained for Gf showed a slight trend to decrease with increasing compressive strength.
A trend to decreasing autocorrelation of the dislocation distribution was observed as deformation proceeds.
Choice of intermittent hemodialysis led to faster residual methanol clearance, formic acid clearance and showed trend to decreased hospital costs.
Is there a trend to decreased and less steady rainfall during the summer growing period of winter wheat visible when evaluating current climate projections? .
Adapting to the same face showed a trend to decreased thresholds below baseline (p = 0.07), while adapting to a different face of either gender significantly increased thresholds above baseline (both p's<0.02).
Although, gain of the 1p31 region has previously been associated with a trend to decreased overall patient survival in MFHs [5], no such association was seen in this tumour panel.
