"North America" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The northern continent of the Western Hemisphere, extending northward from the Colombia-Panama border and including CENTRAL AMERICA, MEXICO, Caribbean area, the UNITED STATES, CANADA and GREENLAND. The term often refers more narrowly to MEXICO, continental UNITED STATES, AND CANADA.
| Descriptor ID |
D009656
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| MeSH Number(s) |
Z01.107.567
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "North America" by people in Profiles.
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Impacts of High Environmental Temperatures on Congenital Anomalies: A Systematic Review. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 05 05; 18(9).
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Prevalence and number of children living in institutional care: global, regional, and country estimates. Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2020 05; 4(5):370-377.
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Cervical cancer risk in women living with HIV across four continents: A multicohort study. Int J Cancer. 2020 02 01; 146(3):601-609.
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Consistent LDL-C response with evolocumab among patient subgroups in PROFICIO: A pooled analysis of 3146 patients from phase 3 studies. Clin Cardiol. 2018 Oct; 41(10):1328-1335.
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Pulmonary exacerbation in adults with bronchiectasis: a consensus definition for clinical research. Eur Respir J. 2017 06; 49(6).
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Non-Hodgkin lymphoma in Southern Africa: review of 487 cases from The International Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Classification Project. Br J Haematol. 2016 Mar; 172(5):716-23.
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Genomic resolution of an aggressive, widespread, diverse and expanding meningococcal serogroup B, C and W lineage. J Infect. 2015 Nov; 71(5):544-52.
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Recombinant factor VIII Fc fusion protein for the prevention and treatment of bleeding in children with severe hemophilia A. J Thromb Haemost. 2015 Jun; 13(6):967-77.
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Impact of risk factors for specific causes of death in the first and subsequent years of antiretroviral therapy among HIV-infected patients. Clin Infect Dis. 2014 Jul 15; 59(2):287-97.
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Worldwide emergence of multiple clades of enterovirus 68. J Gen Virol. 2012 Sep; 93(Pt 9):1952-1958.