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- Dictionaryprevalence/ˈprɛv(ə)ləns/
noun
- 1. the fact or condition of being prevalent; commonness: "the prevalence of obesity in adults"
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- Prevalence
Number of disease cases in a given population at a specific time
In epidemiology, prevalence is the proportion of a particular population found to be affected by a medical condition at a specific time. It is derived by comparing the number of people found to have the condition with the total number of people studied and is usually expressed as a fraction, a percentage, or the number of cases per 10,000 or 100,000 people. Prevalence is most often used in questio... Wikipedia
