 Prevalence
"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.
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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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| 1995 | 0 | 15 | 15 | | 1996 | 0 | 12 | 12 | | 1997 | 0 | 6 | 6 | | 1998 | 0 | 13 | 13 | | 1999 | 0 | 13 | 13 | | 2000 | 0 | 17 | 17 | | 2001 | 0 | 14 | 14 | | 2002 | 0 | 29 | 29 | | 2003 | 0 | 34 | 34 | | 2004 | 0 | 39 | 39 | | 2005 | 0 | 57 | 57 | | 2006 | 0 | 48 | 48 | | 2007 | 0 | 61 | 61 | | 2008 | 0 | 67 | 67 | | 2009 | 0 | 68 | 68 | | 2010 | 0 | 91 | 91 | | 2011 | 0 | 67 | 67 | | 2012 | 0 | 105 | 105 | | 2013 | 0 | 93 | 93 | | 2014 | 0 | 95 | 95 | | 2015 | 0 | 87 | 87 | | 2016 | 2 | 107 | 109 | | 2017 | 0 | 110 | 110 | | 2018 | 0 | 116 | 116 | | 2019 | 0 | 130 | 130 | | 2020 | 0 | 110 | 110 | | 2021 | 1 | 101 | 102 | | 2022 | 0 | 61 | 61 | | 2023 | 0 | 71 | 71 | | 2024 | 0 | 99 | 99 | | 2025 | 0 | 47 | 47 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Prevalence" by people in Profiles.
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Wong M, Goldberg A, Pan Z, Quinn L, Furuta GT, Sundaram SS, Nguyen N. Eosinophilic Esophagitis in a Large Cohort of Pediatric Liver Transplant Recipients. Pediatr Transplant. 2025 Nov; 29(7):e70181.
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Nurmohamed NS, Ngo-Metzger Q, Taub PR, Ray KK, Figtree GA, Bonaca MP, Hsia JA, Angadageri S, Earls JP, Rodriguez F, Sandhu AT, Min JK, Hoffmann U, Maron DJ, Bhatt DL. First myocardial infarction: risk factors, symptoms, and medical therapy. Eur Heart J. 2025 Oct 07; 46(38):3762-3772.
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Winkles JF, Santoro N, Sammel MD, El Khoudary SR, Colvin A, Crawford S. Measuring associations between hormonal entropy, the prevalence of vasomotor symptoms, and menstrual dynamics. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab. 2025 Nov 01; 329(5):E603-E615.
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Fain MJ, Horne BD, Horwitz LI, Thaweethai T, Greene M, Hornig M, Orkaby AR, Rosen C, Ritchie CS, Ashktorab H, Blachman N, Brim H, Emerson S, Erdmann N, Erlandson KM, de Erausquin G, Fong T, Geng LN, Gordon HS, Gully JR, Hadlock J, Han J, Huang W, Jagannathan P, Kelly JD, Klein JD, Krishnan JA, Levitan EB, McComsey GA, McDonald D, Montgomery AP, O'Brien L, Ofotokun I, Patterson TF, Peluso MJ, Pemu P, Perlowski A, Reiman EM, Sanon M, Seshadri S, Shellito J, Sherif ZA, Shikuma C, Singer NG, Singh U, Trinity JD, Wisnivesky J, Witvliet MG, Foulkes A, Nikolich J?. Age-Related Changes in the Clinical Picture of Long COVID. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2025 Oct; 73(10):3123-3137.
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Canonico ME, Hsia J, Chiu ST, Tseng PK, Mudd JO, Remick JD, Patel B, Chuang YH, Gluckman TJ, Bonaca MP. Temporal shift in prevalence of heart failure diagnoses and comorbidities within 2 US integrated health systems. Am J Manag Care. 2025 Aug 01; 31(8):e238-e240.
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Dai J, Chau T, Corrada MM, Manson SM, O'Connell J, Jiang L. Race and Ethnicity and Comorbidities Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Young-Onset Dementia. JAMA Netw Open. 2025 Aug 01; 8(8):e2528001.
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Diaz AA, Balte PP, Han M, Kalhan R, Bhatt SP, Couper DJ, Jacobs DR, Daviglus ML, Loehr LR, London SJ, O'Connor GT, Schwartz JE, Gharib SA, Chaves PHM, Sanchez TR, Yende S, Bao R, Smith BM, White WB, Martinez FJ, Oelsner EC. Prevalence and Prognostic Significance of COPD in Adults Younger than 50 Years of Age. NEJM Evid. 2025 Aug; 4(8):EVIDoa2400424.
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Lind KT, DeSmith K, Marks B, Deb A, Dexiang G, Mehner LC, Eissa H. Seeing the Bigger Picture: Cytomegalovirus Retinitis Screening in Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Patients. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2025 Oct; 72(10):e31910.
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Márquez-Friedrichs F, Nolly MB, Ferreyra A, Zuloaga L, Dominguez S, Secotaro A, Rathour VS, Damiani MT, Contreras L, Sánchez DG. Shifts in bla genes and Class 1 integron prevalence in beta-lactamase-producing bacteria before and after the COVID-19 pandemic in Mendoza, Argentina. Microbiol Spectr. 2025 Aug 05; 13(8):e0277124.
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Sarode AL, Su E, Drost J, Evan M, Haselton L, Blecker N. The economic burden of hip fractures in the geriatric population by mental health illness and substance Use Status: National estimates 2016 to 2020. Injury. 2025 Oct; 56(10):112615.
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