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Some rates were overlapping. For example some individual studies provided data for different yet overlapping age-ranges (eg all ages and 15-54 years olds) or for different diagnostic criteria. Other data came from different studies who sites overlapped or from the same site but in overlapping epochs. To overcome this problem we applied pre-defined rules (called “study filters”) to identify discrete non-overlapping rates.