Read on for more information on what they mean and how they’re used in medical research.
One more term from epidemiology you should know ispopulation.
Epidemiologists study specificpopulationsof people.
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For example, they might study adults who live in the U.S. as a specific population.
Incidence vs.
Incidence tells you how many people were diagnosed with a particular disease in a particular population of people.
That means about one in every 141 people ages six and older in the United States has celiac disease.
That figure includes people who have not been diagnosed with the condition.
National Institute of Mental Health.What is prevalence?.
2017;152(8):1922-1932.e2.
