"heightened prevalence" is a grammatically correct phrase that is commonly used in written English.
One example of when you could use it is when discussing the increased frequency of a certain disease in a certain population. For instance, "The heightened prevalence of diabetes among children is a growing concern for public health officials."
This would not prove causation in any individual case, but it would support a connection between pro football careers and heightened prevalence of later-life cognitive decline that the league has long disputed.
The first group will be retired N.F.L. players; the second will be people who played college football but never professionally; and the third will be a control group of nonathletes who have some medical commonalities with the first two (a heightened prevalence of diabetes, for example).
Prior studies report higher morbidity and mortality among RA patients with diabetes [ 1, 2, 40], but to our knowledge no studies have reported heightened prevalence of microvascular complications in patients with comorbid diabetes and RA.
Using this assay we find that placental tissue carries a cancer epigenetic signature, that 5-hmC has a hierarchical abundance among mammals, and that X-linked loci and the 3'UTR of genes have a heightened prevalence for 5-hmC.
In terms of health equity, much of the decline in deaths is concentrated among men and urban dwellers, reflecting the heightened prevalence of major risk factors such as hypertension and hyperlipidemia among this group.
Epidemiologists said that its primary design — to examine 120 N.F.L. players and 60 men who played only through college, spread across ages from 30 to 60 — could not discover any heightened prevalence of dementia.
In Moscow, abuse from clients, but not pimps, heightened STI/HIV prevalence [ 7].
These findings confirmed a causal relationship between the Q576R IL-4Rα polymorphism and the clinical phenotype of heightened asthma prevalence and severity in African-Americans due to enhanced Th2 inflammation.
This risk is heightened by the prevalence of Malaria in the region.
They say, wow, beautiful clothes". Competition is heightened by the prevalence of "pepe": donations from overseas of second-hand, often brand-label, clothes sold cheaply on street stalls.
Two parallel trends have heightened the importance and prevalence of such inequalities.
