Prevalence

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Prevalence is the "total number of cases of a given disease in a specified population at a designated time. It is differentiated from incidence, which refers to the number of new cases in the population at a given time." [1]

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  1. ↑ Anonymous, (2009) Prevalence (English). Medical Subject Headings. U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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