Sentence examples for changing prevalence from inspiring English sources

Gallstone disease is a disorder with a changing prevalence, reflecting the increasing life expectancy and changes in life style in "westernized" societies [ 1].

In addition to climatic factors, changing prevalence trends may be caused by factors such as changes in surveillance, treatment, resistance, and behavior patterns of vectors and humans, and understanding the relative contributions of these factors is key.

For all three sites, secular changes at the population level need to be examined in terms of the possible screening interventions and/or changing diagnostic patterns (as possible period effects) against a changing prevalence and distribution of risk factors, which may show up as changes in rates among successive generations (cohort effects).

Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the changing prevalence of maternal obesity in an urban center.

Niwa Y, Sumi H, Kawahira K, Terashimsa T, T & Akamatsu H (2003): Protein oxidative damage in the stratum corneum: evidence for a link between environmental oxidants and the changing prevalence and nature of atopic dermatitis in Japan.

The inclusion of data over four survey years allowed for analysis of changing prevalence of behaviors over time while simultaneously increasing analytic sample size.

The CDM is a tool that relates (changing) prevalences of risk factors in the general population, such as smoking, overweight and alcohol consumption, to the occurrence of chronic diseases.

Changing the prevalence of diseases did not change the percentage of positive tests.

The characteristics of the prenatal medication usage studies are summarized in Additional file 2. Because of concerns of changing autism prevalence rate over time, an a priori decision was made to restrict the analysis to include autism prevalence studies in which the range of birth years had at least one year of overlap with the range of birth years of the prenatal paracetamol usage studies.

Although the RR decreases with increasing duration of infection (Fig.  4a and 4b), the sample size needed per group is almost unaffected by the change in duration of infection (Fig.  4c and 4d) or by changing chlamydia prevalence (not shown).

Generally speaking, using prevalence rates of these risk factors 20 year ago to estimate PARs of risk factors might be influenced by the changing of prevalence rates in this population.