Translation

罹患 / 疾病状態 / 罹患率 / 病的傾向

Meaning

Morbidity means illness, disease, or health problems in a person or group. In medical writing it focuses on being ill, complications, or disease burden, not death. Do not confuse it with mortality.

Examples

• その治療は術後の合併症を減らしました。
  The treatment reduced postoperative morbidity.
• 研究者たちは糖尿病に関連する疾病負担を調べました。
  Researchers studied morbidity associated with diabetes.