increasing prevalence
collocation in Englishmeaningsofincreaseandprevalence
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increase
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈɪn.kriːs/us/ˈɪn.kriːs/
a rise in the amount or size ...
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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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With anincreasingprevalence, costs are also bound to increase.
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To the extent that insulin resistance and neurodegenerative disorders are related, the increasingprevalenceof insulin resistance could eventuate in anincreasingprevalenceof dementia.
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Increasingprevalenceof overweight, obesity and physical inactivity - two population-based studies 1986 and 1994.
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Increasingprevalenceof antimicrobial resistance among uropathogens causing acute uncomplicated cystitis in women.
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Furthermore, there is anincreasingprevalenceof cardiovascular diseases among elderly female patients (51).
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Theincreasingprevalenceof bacterial antibiotic resistance necessitates the development of alternative antibacterial therapies.
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The effect of theincreasingprevalenceof maternal obesity on perinatal morbidity.
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These include diminished eyesight and hearing and theincreasingprevalenceof dementia with age.
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Psychiatric disorders and being overweight are major health problems withincreasingprevalence.
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Voices are being raised across the disciplines concerning theincreasingprevalenceof plagiarism and how to deal with it.
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These different forms of dissolution are not new but theirincreasingprevalencemeans that they can no longer be ignored.
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Dual sensory loss has received little research attention despite itsincreasingprevalencein the older adult population.
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Theincreasingprevalenceof war metaphors for medicine has provoked an array of criticisms from bioethicists who fear its idolatry.
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The perceivable drug residues in animal products, theincreasingprevalenceof anthelmintic-resistant strains of helminths and high cost of conventional anthelmintics is alarming.
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Although environmental changes are clearly responsible for theincreasingprevalenceof obesity, individuals may show genetic variation in their response to an obesogenic environment.
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This may be one reason for theincreasingprevalence, but we could not elucidate whether the risk of chronicity increased with age due to the small sample sizes.
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Let me turn briefly to theincreasingprevalencein our society of genetically transmitted diseases.
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One of the most remarkable phenomena of the past 30 years has been theincreasingprevalenceof foreign travel.
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There must be a good reason why that document has been delayed, given theincreasingprevalenceof the disease.
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My other dominant concern has not yet been mentioned: theincreasingprevalenceof illegal camping in my area.
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Theincreasingprevalenceof law and order in the desert meant that the chieftaincy was less and less necessary as a guarantor of its members' personal security and rights.
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