Common mental disorder has often been found to have a higher prevalence than physical health problems [ 11] and is more prevalent in residents of urban environments [ 12].
"We found that 10percentt of the biological relatives of schizophrenic adoptees have the disorder themselves," Dr. Kety told an interviewer upon receiving the Lasker Award, "a five-fold higher prevalence than exists in the general population".
Chicago maintained a higher prevalence than both Los Angeles and New York City following 2007.
Most questionnaire studies use somewhat modified criteria, whereas studies based on personal interviews seem to give somewhat higher prevalence than those using questionnaires.
The increasing prevalence of diabetes is well-documented along with the findings that some ethnic minorities have a higher prevalence than non-minority individuals.
However, communities with predominately shrub land (10.4%) or forested land cover (6.2%) had higher prevalence than those with mosaic vegetation/croplands (2.5%).
Inpatients had a higher prevalence than outpatients, which is likely due to the fact that these patients are more acutely ill.
Additionally, some localized areas have a much higher prevalence than their regional average.
Qinghai had a higher prevalence than the other 13 provinces combined (3.88% versus 0.43%).
We observe considerably higher prevalence than that previously reported on the basis of blood smear examination.
In the eastern region (Ningxia and Gansu), HBV genotype C was the most common genotype with a much higher prevalence than the C/D recombinant (63.0% vs. 25.0%).
