Frequency, incidence, and prevalence
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Frequency, incidence, and prevalence
I have read with interest the paper “Recent incidence and descriptive epidemiological survey of breast cancer in Saudi Arabia” published by Saggu et al1 in the October 2015 issue of Saudi Medical Journal. In this paper, the authors reported a frequency profile of breast cancer (BC) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) for almost 2 decades indicating that the cancer increased over time in this r...
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To describe how often a disease or another health event occurs in a population, different measures of disease frequency can be used. The prevalence reflects the number of existing cases of a disease. In contrast to the prevalence, the incidence reflects the number of new cases of disease and can be reported as a risk or as an incidence rate. Prevalence and incidence are used for different purpo...
متن کامل[Prevalence and incidence].
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 point in time. The prevalence is calculated by dividing the number of persons with the disease or condition at a particular time point by the number of individuals examined. For e...
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1 Graham M, Levene MI, Trounce JQ, Rutter N. Prediction of cerebral palsy in very low birthweight infants: prospective ultrasound study. Lancet 1987; ii:593-6. 2 Stewart AL, Reynolds EOR, Hope PL, et al. Probability of neurodevelopmental disorders estimated from ultrasound appearance of brains of very preterm infants. Dev Med Child Neurol 1987;29:3-1 1. 3 Cooke RWI. Early and late cranial ultra...
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Accepted for publication 7 July 1993 Abstract Objective-To determine the prevalence of syphilis and the prevalence and incidence of self-reported STD syndromes in the population of Mwanza Region, North-Western Tanzania. Methods-A population-based random cluster sample survey, stratified by rural, roadside or urban residence, of 4173 individuals aged 15-54 years was performed in 1990-91. The ser...
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عنوان ژورنال: Saudi Medical Journal
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0379-5284,1658-3175
DOI: 10.15537/smj.2016.3.14677