Sentence examples for higher than average prevalence from inspiring English sources

Higher than average prevalence rates for caregiver distress were found among clients with HD, ADRD, ALS, and PD.

7 The Eastern region of the country reports a higher than average prevalence of HIV (5%), syphilis (10%) and HBV (4.3%) in GMT persons.

It was suggested that in human patients with a higher than average prevalence of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth there is an increased bacterial translocation [ 25].

Secondly, the inclusion criteria for the larger trial from which this sample was obtained required participants to have current foot pain, which may have biased the sample towards having a higher than average prevalence of HV.

For such situations of rural PM would promote contacts between infected and susceptible individuals, the latter tending to have a higher than average prevalence in rural or isolated areas.

HIV prevalence was higher among older MSM than their younger counterparts (11.6% vs. 5.2%), and is higher than average prevalence (4.9%) among nearly 50,000 MSM in a nationwide survey during 2008 and 2009 [ 2], and is also higher than the average prevalence among national sentinel sample (6.3% for HIV, and 10% for syphilis) [ 3].

Thus age can be useful as a screening tool in the traditional sense, to minimise the number of standard diagnostic tests by identifying people with a higher-than-average prevalence of infection [ 29].

Clusters with higher than average apparent prevalence in one survey also tended to have high prevalence in other surveys (Spearman correlation coefficients [16]: T1 vs T2, rS = 0.504, one-tailed P = 0.05; T1 vs T3, rS = 0.483, one-tailed P = 0.10; T2 vs T3, rS = 0.714, one-tailed P = 0.05).

This is higher than the average prevalence of chronic pain (23%) in Australians aged 75 84.

In comparison with other Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, the recent estimated prevalence of diabetes in Korea is higher than the average prevalence of type 2 diabetes among OECD countries, which stands at 6.9%.

While sexual transmission bridges between IDUs and non-IDUs may help explain high HIV prevalence in some non-IDU populations, a second potential explanation for higher than average HIV prevalence among some non-IDU populations is that risky drug use behaviors among non-IDUs may represent true risk factors for HIV infection.