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prevalence
(redirected from Period prevalence)

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prevalence [′prev·ə·ləns]
(genetics)
The frequency with which a medical condition is found in specific population at a specific time.


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We determined period prevalence of asthma at baseline by taking the number of definition 1 or 2 asthma cases occurring from birth to 12 months after the index BLL and dividing it by the total number of children in the cohort at that time.
[6] Period prevalence is measured over a specified time period, usually 1 year (ie, those people who report having had LBP in the past 12 months).
 
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