lifetime prevalence

collocation in English

meaningsoflifetimeandprevalence

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lifetime
noun[C usually singular]
uk
/ˈlaɪf.taɪm/
us
/ˈlaɪf.taɪm/
the period of time during which someone lives or ...
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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 oflifetimeandprevalencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Estimates of thelifetimeprevalenceof depression based on retrospective reports are likely to substantially underestimate the true lifetime prevalence of depression.
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For family studies the lower estimates oflifetimeprevalencein relatives may provide encouraging but misleading information for clinicians and patients.
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The survey was not designed to derivelifetimeprevalencefigures.
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Thelifetimeprevalenceof depression was 23 % in men and 45 % in women.
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One wonders what they might have found had they examinedlifetimeprevalenceand considered differences in subtypes of social phobia.
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Thelifetimeprevalenceestimates were 3.6 % and 1.7 % respectively.
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For community studies oflifetimeprevalence, recall failure clearly leads to underestimation oflifetimeprevalence.
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Consequently, they yielded a lowerlifetimeprevalenceof exposure and a smaller proportion of persons with multiple traumas.
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This is an important distinction because race-ethnic differences inlifetimeprevalencemay involve different causal pathways and call for different solutions than differences in persistence.
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Hispanics have lowerlifetimeprevalenceof substance use disorder (x2=6.01, df=1, p=0.018) and any disorder (x2=3.23, df=1, p=0.08).
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Lifetimeprevalenceand age of onset of psychiatric disorders : recall 4 years later.
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Lifetimeprevalenceis required, namely the prevalence of disorder at any time up to interview.
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Lifetimeprevalencebased on recall will be markedly underestimated but the identification of major risk factors may be relatively little impaired.
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This descriptive analysis of nationally representative data on psychiatric disorders indicates that these various factors combine to have opposite impacts onlifetimeprevalenceand persistence of psychiatric disorders.
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Often, a 12-month prevalence (or some other type of period prevalence) is used in conjunction withlifetimeprevalence.
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A review of anxiety disorder surveys in different countries found averagelifetimeprevalenceestimates of 16.6%, with women having higher rates on average.
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