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the quality of prevailing generally; being widespread; "he was surprised by the prevalence of optimism about the future" (epidemiology) the ratio (for a given time period) of the number of occurrences of a disease or event to the number of units at risk in the population preponderance: a superiority in numbers or amount; "a preponderance of evidence against the defendant"
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is the proportion of individuals in a population having a disease.
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A measure of the proportion of people in a population affected with a particular disease at a given time.
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The number of people in a given group or population who are reported to have a disease.
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| prevalence rate |
Total number of people infected at one time in a population, regardless of when the disease began.
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