overall prevalence

collocation in English

meaningsofoverallandprevalence

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overall
adverb[before noun]
adjective
uk
/ˌəʊ.vəˈrɔːl/us
/ˌoʊ.vɚˈɑːl/
in general rather than in particular, or including all the people or things in a particular group ...
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prevalence
noun[U]
uk
/ˈprev.əl.əns/us
/ˈprev.əl.əns/
the fact that something is very common or ...
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(Definition ofoverallandprevalencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Theoverallprevalenceduring the study period was 1.6/1000 live births, with theoverallprevalence of cardiovascular malformations being 4.8/1000 live births.
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Theoverallprevalencefound in our study is the highest ever reported in the continent.
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Theoverallprevalencewas 57.0%, with 56.3% of male and 57.9% of female dogs being infected.
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Theoverallprevalenceof adult worms in the dog population was 57%.
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Overallprevalenceof the parasite was 86% and the mean abundance was 53 worms per fish.
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Theoverallprevalenceof infection was 12 % as determined by both methods.
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Theoverallprevalenceof larval trematode infections in the habitats ranged between 0.3 and 24.4% (table 1).
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Theoverallprevalenceof reports of loneliness ranged from five to nine per cent and showed no increase.
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In such studies individual test results are only of importance for their contribution to theoverallprevalence.
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Theoverallprevalenceof infection in all rodents in the survey was 47 % (276/582) when measured during autopsy.
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The greatest discrepancy in prevalence, between the years, was in spring and quite clearlyoverallprevalencewas highest in 1999.
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Of the 101 lizards examined, 35 were infected with at least one helminth (overallprevalenceof 34.7%).
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Theoverallprevalenceof 25.1% calls for priority attention for the disease in the health programmes in these areas.
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Thus, in forestry workers, theoverallprevalenceof arenavirus antibodies was significantly higher than that of hantavirus antibodies.
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To detect an infectiousness vaccine effect, both a low external force and a reasonableoverallprevalenceare required.
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Theoverallprevalenceof cataract increases with age (6), and the prevalence of advanced cataract is higher in females than in males (7).
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The high prevalence of simple phobia has not inflated theoverallprevalenceof mental disorder since all of these patients also had another mental disorder.
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Nevertheless, even among these animalsoverallprevalencewas high, so at best, this might relate only to a relatively small subset of the population.
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Regardless, considering that theoverallprevalenceof congenital heart disease is between 0.7 and 1%,19'20 the aortic valve with two leaflets remains the most common congenital anomaly.
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