Previous studies revealed increases in the prevalence of chronic diseases in older people in most countries.
Local and state registries have shown recent increases in the prevalence of gastroschisis in the United States and abroad.
Serum PSA increases with age, due largely to age related increases in the prevalence of benign prostatic disease.
The researchers calculated that "increases in the body-mass index accounted over all for about 26,000 additional deaths from coronary heart disease in 2000, and increases in the prevalence of diabetes for about 33,500 additional deaths".
Over the last two decades populations around the world have experienced large increases in the prevalence of diabetes mellitus and of one of its most important risk factors, obesity.
Epidemiological features of infective endocarditis have changed during the last decades because of increases in the prevalence of health care exposure and of Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection.
Consistent with that hypothesis, decreases in infectious oral diseases over the past half century have coincided with increases in the prevalence of asthma and other allergic diseases.
Increases in the prevalence of overweight and obesity are a function of chronic, population-level energy imbalance, whereby energy intakes exceed energy expenditures.
Armstrong said climate change had the potential to affect health directly through heatwaves and extreme weather, and indirectly through increases in the prevalence of certain diseases if, for example, public sanitation was compromised due to floods.
They also found associations between longer-run warming and longer-run increases in the prevalence of self-reported mental health issues and discovered that an area's exposure to Hurricane Katrina was associated with subsequent increases in prevalence of mental health issues.
Developing countries worldwide are experiencing similar increases in the prevalence of overweight individuals and obesity within their populations, particularly in urban regions [1].
