North America

"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.

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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
MeSH Number(s)	Z01.107.567
Concept/Terms	North America North America Northern America Northern America

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Geographicals [Z]
Geographic Locations [Z01]
Americas [Z01.107]
North America [Z01.107.567]

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Year	Minor Topic	Total
1998	1	1
1999	1	1
2001	1	1
2002	2	2
2004	1	1
2005	2	2
2006	1	1
2007	1	1
2008	1	1
2009	4	4
2010	2	2
2011	1	1
2012	1	1
2013	4	4
2014	5	5
2015	2	2
2016	4	4
2017	8	8
2018	7	7
2019	2	2
2020	4	4
2021	4	4
2022	1	1
2023	3	3
2024	2	2

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Finati M, Stephens A, Cirulli GO, Chiarelli G, Tinsley S, Morrison C, Sood A, Buffi N, Lughezzani G, Salonia A, Briganti A, Montorsi F, Busetto GM, Rogers C, Carrieri G, Abdollah F. Association of race and area of deprivation index with prostate cancer incidence and lethality: results from a contemporary North American cohort. JNCI Cancer Spectr. 2024 Nov 01; 8(6).

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Lang R, Coburn SB, Gill MJ, Justice AC, Grossman J, Gebo KA, Horberg MA, Mayor AM, Silverberg MJ, McGinnis KA, Hogan B, Moore RD, Althoff KN. Evaluation of mean corpuscular volume among anemic people with HIV in North America following ART initiation. AIDS Res Ther. 2024 Aug 07; 21(1):52.

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Finati M, Davis M, Stephens A, Chiarelli G, Cirulli GO, Morrison C, Affas R, Sood A, Buffi N, Lughezzani G, Briganti A, Montorsi F, Carrieri G, Rogers C, Vickers AJ, Abdollah F. The Role of Baseline Prostate-specific Antigen Value Prior to Age 60 in Predicting Lethal Prostate Cancer: Analysis of a Contemporary North American Cohort. Eur Urol Oncol. 2024 Dec; 7(6):1535-1542.

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Corsi NJ, Stephens A, Finati M, Malchow T, Morrison C, Davis M, Hares K, Corsi MP, Arora S, Chiarelli G, Cirulli GO, Autorino R, Sood A, Rogers C, Abdollah F. Testing the external validity of the POUT III trial (adjuvant platnium-based chemotherapy in upper tract urothelial carcinoma) in a North American cohort. Urol Oncol. 2024 Jun; 42(6):175.e19-175.e25.

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Chiarelli G, Davis M, Stephens A, Cirulli GO, Finati M, Corsi NJ, Sood A, Tinsley S, Carrieri G, Briganti A, Montorsi F, Lughezzani G, Buffi N, Rogers C, Abdollah F. Comparison of patient background between a real-world North American cohort and the G?teborg-2 trial. Int J Urol. 2024 May; 31(5):562-567.

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Lavretsky P, Hern?ndez F, Swale T, Mohl JE. Chromosomal-level reference genome of a wild North American mallard (Anas platyrhynchos). G3 (Bethesda). 2023 09 30; 13(10).

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Smith MS, Teufel-Shone N. Editorial: Indigenous knowledge and chronic disease prevention among the first people of North America. Front Public Health. 2023; 11:1150221.

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Lee NR, King A, Vigil D, Mullaney D, Sanderson PR, Ametepee T, Hammitt LL. Infectious diseases in Indigenous populations in North America: learning from the past to create a more equitable future. Lancet Infect Dis. 2023 10; 23(10):e431-e444.

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Lang R, Gill MJ, Coburn SB, Grossman J, Gebo KA, Horberg MA, Mayor AM, Silverberg MJ, Willig AL, Justice AC, Klein MB, Bosch RJ, Rabkin CS, Hogan B, Thorne JE, Moore RD, Althoff KN. The changing prevalence of anemia and risk factors in people with HIV in North America who have initiated ART, 2007-2017. AIDS. 2023 02 01; 37(2):287-298.

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Young J, Lo Re V, Kim HN, Sterling TR, Althoff KN, Gebo KA, Gill MJ, Horberg MA, Mayor AM, Moore RD, Silverberg MJ, Klein MB. Do contemporary antiretrovirals increase the risk of end-stage liver disease? Signals from patients starting therapy in the North American AIDS Cohort Collaboration on Research and Design. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2022 02; 31(2):214-224.

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