Terrence Howard plays a music mogul in a new series on Fox. CHICAGO â In the presidential suite of a Hilton hotel, above a ballroom full of extras waiting to shoot a lavish party scene, sat the two lead actors of âEmpire,â a new Fox series about a feuding entertainment-industry family.
Prevalence is a statistical concept referring to the number of cases of a disease that are present in a particular population at a given time, whereas incidence refers to the number of new cases that develop in a given period of time.
The prevalence of a disease is the number of diseased individuals at any one time (point prevalence) or over a given period (period prevalence). The incidence is the number of new cases of a disease that occur within a defined population over an established period of time. Frequently either prevalence or incidence, or both, are given as a rate, meaning the number of cases in a fixed number of people, e.g., cases per 100,000.