In epidemiology, prevalence and incidence are among the most fundamental measures when it comes to monitoring disease. But do you know what they mean or how and why they are important? This article ...

What is the difference between pressure ulcer prevalence studies and pressure ulcer incidence studies? Prevalence studies measure the number of a defined set of patients who have a pressure ulcer ...

These cases represented a cumulative incidence rate of 33.9, or 0.6%. The cumulative prevalence was 147.4, or 0.15%. For two or more insurance claims, Greenhawt said, incidence was 15.3 ...

Climate change is fueling a rise in breast and ovarian cancer cases and deaths among women, especially in the MENA region, ...

Over the course of 8 years, the standardized cumulative incidence of pancreatic cysts grew from 6.3 per 10,000 in 2010 to 11.4 per 10,000 in 2017. Prevalence also grew, from 8.9 per 10,000 in 2010 ...

Although the increased prevalence of childhood obesity ... as normal-weight children to become obese (9-year cumulative incidence, 31.8% vs. 7.9%), with rates of 91.5 versus 17.2 per 1000 person ...

Background: Hospitalization and lab confirmed cases of H1N1 have been reported during the first wave of the 2009 pandemic but these are not accurate measures of influenza incidence in the population.