The phrase "altered the prevalence of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing changes in the frequency or occurrence of a particular phenomenon, condition, or behavior.
Example: "The new health policy altered the prevalence of smoking among teenagers in the community."
Alternatives: "changed the frequency of" or "modified the occurrence of".
We do not believe this will have greatly altered the prevalence of referable eye disease reported in the study, as referable disease is very rare in newly diagnosed people with T1DM, 14 and in this population <2% of individuals with newly diagnosed T2DM have referable retinopathy at their first screening examination.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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%.
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.
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).
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 ).
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.
