Incidence or prevalence.
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[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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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Ophthalmology
سال: 1989
ISSN: 0007-1161
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.73.7.481