Prevalence and incidence can also be expressed as a rate or proportion for a given population. It is also possible for a disease to have a high prevalence but low incidence if for example you were to ...

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Moreover, people with dementia rarely have dementia alone, Lusk stated in an opinion article. "The presence of other severe ...

Regional variations in MG prevalence and incidence are observed, with lower rates in South America, Europe, and Asia. The data come from a systematic review of over 90 studies between 1952 through ...

Usually, incidence and incidence rate are used interchangeably. Incidence rate=number of new injuries/total of athletic exposure hours per, for example, 1000 athlete-hours. Prevalence-based measures ...

and the prevalence analysis included 1,057,534 patients. The researchers found that the overall incidence rate of diagnosed vitiligo was 22.6 per 100,000 person-years (PY) after adjustment for age ...

A subsequent development was the use of the serial annual prevalence estimates, to estimate the incidence of HIV and the rate at which infection was diagnosed, in the framework of a dynamic ...