The increasingly high prevalence of sleep-disordered breathing in the general community [14] coupled with the potential for nocturnal hypoxia to cause deterioration in kidney function [1], [2], [3] prompted our investigation of the relationship between nocturnal hypoxia and loss of kidney function in a cohort referred for evaluation of sleep apnea.
For our population, increasingly high prevalences of obesity and arterial hypertension and decreasing rates of smoking typically do occur with age (16– 16).
And also with the HIV pandemic, there is increasingly a higher prevalence amongst women in some countries.
Patients referred for cardiac surgery are increasingly older, with a higher prevalence of significant comorbidities and undergoing more extensive surgery.
Subsequently, this CGB5 promoter haplotype is expected to become increasingly prevalent among humans and to exhibit a higher prevalence in couples with normal fertility than in those with RM.
Oropharyngeal SCC are increasingly associated with human papillomavirus (HPV) infection [ 6, 7] and the higher prevalence of PI3K pathway abnormalities in these tumors was eventually linked to HPV [ 8, 9].
Improved treatment of immunocompromised individuals continues to increase their survival, with treatment strategies increasingly transferred to relatively lower-income countries, which also contributed to the overall higher prevalence than previously estimated for these countries [ 2].
In contrast, the median prevalence of autism is 12.7/10,000, and the percentages of normal IQs is increasingly higher, in studies done more recently.
11 The populations in many countries are aging, leading to a higher prevalence of cancers needing radiation treatment, while radiation therapy equipment and technologies are becoming increasingly available worldwide.
