6 sentences with “incidence”

By way of example, here are two possible solutions for two hair problems with a high statistical incidence:

Electric blankets generate a very powerful magnetic field, the incidence of which triples the chance of cancer in the children of pregnant women who use them frequently.

In a rainbow, those points of light reflected from a drop with the same angle of incidence with respect to the sun will give rise to radiation of the same wavelength, i.e. the same colour.

Dr Lynch has observed that, in families with a high incidence of cancer, colon cancer develops at 44 years of age on average, when it most commonly occurs between 60 and 65, and breast cancer strikes at around 42 years of age, rather than at 60.

Studies attributing folic acid (a B-complex vitamin) to a lower incidence of congenital neural tube defects, such as spina bifida, are so strong that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has required producers of rice, pasta and cereals to add it to their products since 1998.

How does the incidence of phosphate salts correspond to the invasion of algae? In reality, it all comes together in a meticulous way. To understand this, we must remember that carnivores feed on herbivores, which in turn feed on plants, which in turn feed on organic matter. At the bottom of this chain, or pyramid, are phosphates.