Incidence and prevalance??? - ValueMD Medical Schools Forum

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04-18-2007, 12:15 PM

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Incidence and prevalance???

If a person with disease enters in usa E.g T.b what will happen to incidence and prevalence?

HY question was a pt from india came to usa had ppd test with induration of 10 and then it reduced to 5 what will happen to incidence and prevalance?

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04-25-2007, 10:58 PM

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Not interesting hmmmm.....no body replied.

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05-11-2007, 01:13 PM

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a new case= incidence will go up.

old cases+ new cases= prevalence, so prevalence will go up

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