"Mortality" 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.
All deaths reported in a given population.
| Descriptor ID |
D009026
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E05.318.308.985.550 N01.224.935.698 N06.850.505.400.975.550 N06.850.520.308.985.550
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| Concept/Terms |
Case Fatality Rate- Case Fatality Rate
- Case Fatality Rates
- Rate, Case Fatality
- Rates, Case Fatality
Mortality, Excess- Mortality, Excess
- Excess Mortalities
- Mortalities, Excess
- Excess Mortality
Decline, Mortality- Decline, Mortality
- Declines, Mortality
- Mortality Declines
- Mortality Decline
Mortality Determinants- Mortality Determinants
- Determinant, Mortality
- Mortality Determinant
- Determinants, Mortality
Mortality, Differential- Mortality, Differential
- Differential Mortalities
- Mortalities, Differential
- Differential Mortality
Age-Specific Death Rate- Age-Specific Death Rate
- Age-Specific Death Rates
- Death Rate, Age-Specific
- Death Rates, Age-Specific
- Rate, Age-Specific Death
- Rates, Age-Specific Death
- Age Specific Death Rate
Death Rate- Death Rate
- Death Rates
- Rate, Death
- Rates, Death
- Mortality Rate
- Mortality Rates
- Rate, Mortality
- Rates, Mortality
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Mortality" by people in this website by year, and whether "Mortality" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2003 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2004 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2005 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2006 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2007 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2009 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2010 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
| 2011 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2012 | 5 | 3 | 8 |
| 2013 | 5 | 3 | 8 |
| 2014 | 4 | 5 | 9 |
| 2015 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2016 | 6 | 4 | 10 |
| 2017 | 5 | 8 | 13 |
| 2018 | 2 | 8 | 10 |
| 2019 | 7 | 3 | 10 |
| 2020 | 4 | 7 | 11 |
| 2021 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2022 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2023 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2024 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2025 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Mortality" by people in Profiles.
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Baltrus P, Li C, Douglas M, Gaglioti A, Mack D. Identifying Long Term All-Cause Mortality Trends in US Counties from 2011 to 2020 and Associated Spatio-Temporal Patterns in Primary Care Physicians Supply. J Prim Care Community Health. 2025 Jan-Dec; 16:21501319251396046.
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Carew JW, Radulescu SC, Zhang L, Ungurean C, Calomfirescu C, Furtunescu F, Soliman AS. Breast cancer mortality in Romania: trends, regional and rural-urban inequalities, and policy implications. BMC Cancer. 2025 Jul 01; 25(1):1038.
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Jia H, Lubetkin EI. Comparing Potential Contributors of Health-Related Quality of Life and Mortality Among US Older Adults. Med Decis Making. 2025 Aug; 45(6):675-689.
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Urrea Suescun MC, Garc?s-Palacio IC, Soliman AS. Cancer Mortality by Ethnicity in Colombia Between 2011 and 2022: A Population-Based Study. Int J Public Health. 2025; 70:1607975.
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Olshansky SJ, Willcox BJ, Demetrius L, Beltr?n-S?nchez H. Implausibility of radical life extension in humans in the twenty-first century. Nat Aging. 2024 Nov; 4(11):1635-1642.
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Meehan AA, King BT, Biggs R, Boyer AP, Berner-Davis L, DiPietro B. Review of Local Homeless Mortality Efforts: A Call for Standardized Data and Reporting. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2025 May-Jun 01; 31(3):343-350.
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Moll M, Pratte KA, Debban CL, Liu C, Belinsky SA, Picchi M, Konigsberg I, Tern C, Rijhwani H, Hobbs BD, Silverman EK, Tesfaigzi Y, Rich SS, Manichaikul A, Rotter JI, Bowler RP, Cho MH. A protein risk score for all-cause and respiratory-specific mortality in non-Hispanic white and African American individuals who smoke. Sci Rep. 2024 09 04; 14(1):20618.
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Khan AH, Ijaz E, Ubaid B, Eddaki I, Edhi M, Shah MN, Perry G. Analysis of Alzheimer's Disease-Related Mortality Rates Among the Elderly Populations Across the United States: An Analysis of Demographic and Regional Disparities from 1999 to 2020. Curr Alzheimer Res. 2024; 21(6):384-394.
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Dyrting S, Taylor A. Estimating age-specific mortality using calibrated splines. Popul Stud (Camb). 2024 11; 78(3):429-446.
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Madaniyazi L, Tob?as A, Vicedo-Cabrera AM, Jaakkola JJK, Honda Y, Guo Y, Schwartz J, Zanobetti A, Bell ML, Armstrong B, Campbell MJ, Katsouyanni K, Haines A, Ebi KL, Gasparrini A, Hashizume M. Should We Adjust for Season in Time-Series Studies of the Short-Term Association Between Temperature and Mortality? Epidemiology. 2023 05 01; 34(3):313-318.