Epidemiological Triad & Natural History of Disease — Topic Test
20 questions · exam mode (answers revealed at the end). 18 min suggested.
An epidemiologist plots the natural history of a chronic disease and wants to express the proportion of existing cases at a single point in time relative to the population. As the average duration of the disease lengthens while incidence stays constant, what happens to this measure?
APoint prevalence decreases
BCumulative incidence decreases
CPoint prevalence increases
DIncidence rate increases