The phrase "alter the prevalence of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing changes in the frequency or occurrence of something, often in a scientific or analytical context.
Example: "The new policy aims to alter the prevalence of smoking among teenagers in the community."
Alternatives: "change the frequency of" or "modify the occurrence of".
Immunological or hormonal changes may alter the prevalence of HPV and its clearance during pregnancy [ 34].
However, it seems that exclusion of those lost to follow-up did not alter the prevalence of respiratory symptoms or exposure-outcome associations at baseline.
Weighting the data by age, sex, working status, region, and social grade did not alter the prevalence of any behaviour outcome by more than 1%.
These differences suggest that local factors may dramatically alter the prevalence of these conditions, and they can include a wide number of both genetic and environmental characteristics acting simultaneously and synergistically.
Current ecologic conditions yielding differences in the composition of reservoir host species could alter the prevalence of B. burgdorferi lineages that are particularly invasive in humans (27, 28, 30, 36, 37 ).
In addition to not improving the weight profile, deleting Ccl3 did not alter the prevalence of CD68-positive cells in the CNS of Npc1 −/− mice (Fig. 2E and F).
The composition and relative abundance of species within a community can have profound effects on the behavior and density of deer mice, thereby altering the prevalence of SNV.
In the UK population, the classification of up to 3 million patients could be altered, the prevalence of CKD could be reduced by up to 1.9 million and the prevalence of CKD stages 3 5 could fall by around 200 000.
When the sensitivity analysis was done by altering the prevalence of NTM infection among the cases above and below the 20% findings in this study; the ICER of the smear-chest-x-ray algorithm decreased with increase in prevalence and vice-versa.
The use of different definition did not modify the fact that iv NAC did not protect against contrast nephropathy, but altered the prevalence of events in our population as it could range from 16 to 24.5% depending on the definition used.
It is possible that early vigorous exercise may have altered the prevalence of mood or cognitive disorders, the nature of health-care utilization, and its cost over the study period or beyond and possibly even had an indirect benefit to the caregiver.
