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What is a 'general population'?
The 'general population' refers to the average person or the wider group of people in a given area, without any specific condition or characteristic. When researchers say diagnosed individuals are becoming 'increasingly similar' to the general population, it means the unique traits or challenges once strongly associated with the diagnosis are now more commonly seen in everyone.
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