"Prevalence" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The total number of cases of a given disease in a specified population at a designated time. It is differentiated from INCIDENCE, which refers to the number of new cases in the population at a given time.
| Descriptor ID |
D015995
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E05.318.308.985.525.750 N01.224.935.597.750 N06.850.505.400.975.525.750 N06.850.520.308.985.525.750
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Prevalence".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Prevalence".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Prevalence" by people in this website by year, and whether "Prevalence" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1995 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 1996 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 1997 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2000 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2001 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2002 | 0 | 8 | 8 |
| 2003 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2004 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2005 | 0 | 9 | 9 |
| 2006 | 0 | 8 | 8 |
| 2007 | 0 | 20 | 20 |
| 2008 | 0 | 15 | 15 |
| 2009 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| 2010 | 0 | 21 | 21 |
| 2011 | 0 | 24 | 24 |
| 2012 | 0 | 43 | 43 |
| 2013 | 0 | 36 | 36 |
| 2014 | 0 | 44 | 44 |
| 2015 | 0 | 46 | 46 |
| 2016 | 0 | 34 | 34 |
| 2017 | 0 | 54 | 54 |
| 2018 | 0 | 57 | 57 |
| 2019 | 0 | 58 | 58 |
| 2020 | 0 | 51 | 51 |
| 2021 | 0 | 44 | 44 |
| 2022 | 0 | 23 | 23 |
| 2023 | 0 | 31 | 31 |
| 2024 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Prevalence" by people in Profiles.
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Cigarette Prices and Smoking Experimentation Among Zimbabwean Children: A Survival Analysis of the 2014 Global Youth Tobacco Survey. Nicotine Tob Res. 2024 Aug 22; 26(9):1218-1224.
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The association of menopause with cardiometabolic disease risk factors in women living with and without HIV in sub-Saharan Africa: Results from the AWI-Gen 1 study. Maturitas. 2024 Sep; 187:108069.
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Simultaneous alleviation of verification and reference standard biases in a community-based tuberculosis screening study using Bayesian latent class analysis. PLoS One. 2024; 19(6):e0305126.
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The prevalence of malaria in the five districts of Limpopo Province, South Africa, 2015 - 2017. S Afr Med J. 2024 May 09; 114(5):e1821.
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Carriage of antimicrobial-resistant Enterobacterales among pregnant women and newborns in Amhara, Ethiopia. Int J Infect Dis. 2024 Jun; 143:107035.
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Depression Among Pregnant and Breastfeeding Persons Participating in Two Randomized Trials of the Dapivirine Vaginal Ring and Oral Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) in Malawi, South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. AIDS Behav. 2024 Jul; 28(7):2264-2275.
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Prevalence of and Risk Factors for Peripheral Artery Disease in Rural South Africa: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the HAALSI Cohort. J Am Heart Assoc. 2024 Jan 02; 13(1):e031780.
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Prevalence and incidence of sexually transmitted infections among South African women initiating injectable and long-acting contraceptives. PLoS One. 2023; 18(11):e0294285.
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Exploring the national prevalence of mental health risk, multimorbidity and the associations thereof: a repeated cross-sectional panel study. Front Public Health. 2023; 11:1217699.
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Acceptability, feasibility and cost of point of care testing for sexually transmitted infections among South African adolescents where syndromic management is standard of care. BMC Health Serv Res. 2023 Oct 10; 23(1):1078.