Prevalence is a frequently used epidemiological measure of how commonly a disease or condition occurs in a population. Prevalence measures how much of some disease or condition there is in a population at a particular pointin time. The prevalence is calculated by dividing the number of persons ...
To the Editor:— There appears to be considerable variation in use of the terms "prevalence" and "incidence" in the medical and public health literature. The U. S. Public Health Service uses the term "prevalence" to indicate the disease morbidity at a given time, i. e., the number of...
Epidemiological data provide evidence of a steady rise in autoimmune disease throughout Westernized societies over the last decades. Multiple publications exist, describing past or actual incidences/prevalence of individual autoimmune diseases, however, long term studies on selected populations are scarce. ...
OBJECTIVES: The goal of this study was to project the future prevalence and incidence of Alzheimer's disease in the United States and the potential impact of interventions to delay disease onset. METHODS: The numbers of individuals in th... R Brookmeyer,S Gray,C Kawas - 《American Public Hea...
HIV-infected men who have sex with men (MSM) display the highest prevalence of anal infection by high-risk Human Papillomaviruses (hrHPVs) and incidence of anal carcinoma. Anal specimens were genotyped by the Linear Array. Incidence and clearance of anal
Funnel Plots for Risk Ratio of Cancer in Patients With Psoriatic Arthritis eTable 1. Overview of All Included Studies eReferences. eTable 2. Newcastle Ottawa Scale eTable 3. Egger Bias of Prevalence According to Different Cancer Types eTable 4. Egger Bias of Incidence According to Different ...
Because of the preponderance of women in the elderly population, trials of the efficacy of correcting risk factors in general, and lipids in particular, should include women. 展开 关键词: Coronary heart disease demographics prevalence and incidence lipids elderly ...
(hypercalcemia, renal insufficiency, anemia or bone lesion – crab signs) end organ damage, which are considered indications for treatment.1 Although institutional studies show that ~ 8–20% of patients with MM are smoldering at the time of diagnosis,2 the actual prevalence of SMM in the ...
The quality of the studies was not assessed because it was beyond the scope of meta-analyses on disease frequency. Because most prevalence and incidence estimates were provided without 95% CIs, we recalculated all the 95% CIs from the raw data given in the original articles. All P values ...
Pregnant Woman With COVID-19 David Baud, MD, PhD; Gilbert Greub, MD, PhD; Guillaume Favre, MD; Carole Gengler, MD; Katia Jaton, PhD; Estelle Dubruc, MD; Léo Pomar, MSc JAMA Research Letter Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Among Patients Admitted for Childbirth in Southern Connecticut Katherine ...