The phrase "an increase in the prevalence of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the rising occurrence or frequency of a particular phenomenon, condition, or behavior in a population.
Example: "There has been an increase in the prevalence of obesity among children in recent years."
Alternatives: "a rise in the occurrence of" or "an uptick in the frequency of".
Increasing interest in melancholy is not, however, evidence of an increase in the prevalence of actual melancholy.
"Because the population is aging and there's a high proportion of untreated blood pressure, we expect there will be an increase in the prevalence of hospitalization for stroke.
Conversely, there was an increase in the prevalence of connector hubs in the fed state for the default mode and cingulo-opercular networks.
However, they stress that exceeding the minimum temperature thresholds necessary for malaria transmission does not in itself point to an increase in the prevalence of malaria.
We found an increase in the prevalence of IC by age, however, no sex differences were observed.
It was largely the result of an increase in the prevalence of usage — that is, in the number of people who were given a diagnosis of the disease and who then bought drugs to treat it.
It was largely the result of an increase in the prevalence of usage that is, in the number of people who were given a diagnosis of the disease and who then bought drugs to treat it.
Since we observed an increase in the prevalence of each of the individual t(11 14), t(14 16) and t(14 20) cytogenetic abnormalities with respect to African ancestry (Table 3), these three abnormalities were combined in downstream analysis.
National survey data show an increase in the prevalence of nonvitamin, nonmineral (NVNM) supplement use among adults over the past 10 years.
Reports of urban based studies suggest an increase in the prevalence of MS worldwide along with diabetes, hypertension and atherogenic dyslipidemia.
This decline in function was associated with an increase in the prevalence of globally sclerotic glomeruli (14 +/- 10 vs. 0 +/- 0 vs. 0 +/- 0%, REM 25 vs. REM 10 vs. Control, P < 0.05 REM 25 vs. REM 10 and Control).
