Precipitating Factors
"Precipitating Factors" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Factors associated with the definitive onset of a disease, illness, accident, behavioral response, or course of action. Usually one factor is more important or more obviously recognizable than others, if several are involved, and one may often be regarded as "necessary". Examples include exposure to specific disease; amount or level of an infectious organism, drug, or noxious agent, etc.
| Descriptor ID |
D015985
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N05.715.350.200.650 N06.850.490.625.500
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| Concept/Terms |
Precipitating Factors- Precipitating Factors
- Factor, Precipitating
- Factors, Precipitating
- Precipitating Factor
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Precipitating Factors" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Desai R, Sachdeva R, Kumar G. Reply to: Myasthenic crises triggering Takotsubo cardiomyopathy. Int J Cardiol. 2020 02 01; 300:47.