"Cause of Death" 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.
Factors which produce cessation of all vital bodily functions. They can be analyzed from an epidemiologic viewpoint.
| Descriptor ID |
D002423
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E05.318.308.985.550.250 N01.224.935.698.100 N06.850.505.400.975.550.250 N06.850.520.308.985.550.250
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Cause of Death".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Cause of Death".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Cause of Death" by people in this website by year, and whether "Cause of Death" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1995 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2005 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 2007 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2012 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2013 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2014 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2015 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2016 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2017 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 9 | 9 |
| 2020 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2021 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2024 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Cause of Death" by people in Profiles.
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Visit-to-Visit Blood Pressure Variability as a Risk Factor for All-Cause Mortality, Cardiovascular Mortality, and Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events Among American Indians: the Strong Heart Study. Prev Chronic Dis. 2025 Jun 26; 22:E30.
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Importance of postmortem anthropometric evaluation in defining the role of malnutrition as a cause of infant and child deaths in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia: a cohort study. BMJ Open. 2025 Feb 17; 15(2):e089874.
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Impact of moderate or severe mitral and tricuspid valves regurgitation after transcatheter aortic valve replacement. Am Heart J. 2025 Feb; 280:79-88.
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Experience on postmortem minimally invasive tissue sampling to ascertain the cause of death determination in South African children: A case for implementing as standard of care. S Afr Med J. 2024 02 13; 114(2):e1538.
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Association between Physical Activity and Mortality in Patients with Claudication. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2021 04 01; 53(4):732-739.
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Palliative Care Referrals in Cardiac Disease. Pediatrics. 2021 03; 147(3).
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The Relationship of Accelerometer-Assessed Standing Time With and Without Ambulation and Mortality: The WHI OPACH Study. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2021 01 01; 76(1):77-84.
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Portosystemic shunts versus endoscopic intervention with or without medical treatment for prevention of rebleeding in people with cirrhosis. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2020 10 22; 10:CD000553.
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Age-sex specific pulmonary embolism-related mortality in the USA and Canada, 2000-18: an analysis of the WHO Mortality Database and of the CDC Multiple Cause of Death database. Lancet Respir Med. 2021 01; 9(1):33-42.
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SARS-CoV-2-Associated Deaths Among Persons Aged <21 Years - United States, February 12-July 31, 2020. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2020 Sep 18; 69(37):1324-1329.