Prevalence/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Prevalence.

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.

This definition is at least in part based on: Anonymous (2024), Prevalence (English). Medical Subject Headings. U.S. National Library of Medicine.

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