 Epidemiology
"Epidemiology" 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.
Field of medicine concerned with the determination of causes, incidence, and characteristic behavior of disease outbreaks affecting human populations. It includes the interrelationships of host, agent, and environment as related to the distribution and control of disease.
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D004813
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| MeSH Number(s) |
H02.403.720.500
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Epidemiology" by people in UAMS Profiles by year, and whether "Epidemiology" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Epidemiology" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Brumpton B, Sanderson E, Heilbron K, Hartwig FP, Harrison S, Vie G?, Cho Y, Howe LD, Hughes A, Boomsma DI, Havdahl A, Hopper J, Neale M, Nivard MG, Pedersen NL, Reynolds CA, Tucker-Drob EM, Grotzinger A, Howe L, Morris T, Li S, Auton A, Windmeijer F, Chen WM, Bj?rngaard JH, Hveem K, Willer C, Evans DM, Kaprio J, Davey Smith G, ?svold BO, Hemani G, Davies NM. Avoiding dynastic, assortative mating, and population stratification biases in Mendelian randomization through within-family analyses. Nat Commun. 2020 07 14; 11(1):3519.
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Blanco C, Compton WM, Grant BF. Toward Precision Epidemiology. JAMA Psychiatry. 2016 10 01; 73(10):1008-1009.
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