Cause of Death
 
																	
																		 
																	
																		
																	 
																	
																		 
																	
																		
																	 
																	
																			
																					
	"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.
    
			 
			
				
				
					
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							D002423
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							 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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				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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 | 1995 | 0 | 2 | 2 |  | 1996 | 0 | 2 | 2 |  | 1997 | 3 | 6 | 9 |  | 1998 | 1 | 2 | 3 |  | 1999 | 0 | 3 | 3 |  | 2000 | 0 | 5 | 5 |  | 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |  | 2002 | 2 | 1 | 3 |  | 2003 | 0 | 4 | 4 |  | 2004 | 1 | 3 | 4 |  | 2005 | 3 | 7 | 10 |  | 2006 | 3 | 7 | 10 |  | 2007 | 4 | 5 | 9 |  | 2008 | 2 | 7 | 9 |  | 2009 | 4 | 3 | 7 |  | 2010 | 2 | 6 | 8 |  | 2011 | 4 | 9 | 13 |  | 2012 | 6 | 14 | 20 |  | 2013 | 7 | 7 | 14 |  | 2014 | 2 | 12 | 14 |  | 2015 | 3 | 14 | 17 |  | 2016 | 6 | 20 | 26 |  | 2017 | 5 | 21 | 26 |  | 2018 | 9 | 19 | 28 |  | 2019 | 2 | 13 | 15 |  | 2020 | 2 | 10 | 12 |  | 2021 | 2 | 14 | 16 |  | 2022 | 0 | 3 | 3 |  | 2023 | 0 | 11 | 11 |  | 2024 | 1 | 9 | 10 |  | 2025 | 0 | 6 | 6 |  
 
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				Below are the most recent publications written about "Cause of Death" by people in Profiles. 
						
					
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King EA, Hernandez-Alejandro R, Emamaullee J, Al-Adra D, Byrne MM, Selzner N, Anderson B, Pomfret EA, Olthoff KM. Over 30 Years of Living Liver Donation in North America: Mortality Associated With Donation. Ann Surg. 2025 Oct 01; 282(4):650-657. 
															
								 
							
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DeBie K, Keller KP, Gutilla MJ, Rojas-Rueda D, Peel JL, Neophytou AM. Time-Series Analysis of Infant Mortality Disaggregated by Race, Ethnicity, and Specific Causes After 6-Week Abortion Ban. Am J Prev Med. 2025 Oct; 69(4):107960. 
															
								 
							
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Udoko AN, Passarella M, Formanowski B, Hannan KE, Bourque SL, Radack J, Lorch SA, Hwang SS. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Infant Mortality Rates Among Infants Born Preterm in the US Beyond 44 Weeks of Postmenstrual Age. J Pediatr. 2025 Aug; 283:114603. 
															
								 
							
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DeWitte SN, Jones EE, Livingston C. Health and Mortality in the 19th-Century Rural United States: The Second Epidemiological Transition in Madison County, New York. Am J Hum Biol. 2025 Mar; 37(3):e70017. 
															
								 
							
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Alharbi H, Horikoshi S, Jenkins SM, Scaglia F, Lam C, Morava E, Larson A, Edmondson AC. Causes of mortality in the congenital disorders of glycosylation. Mol Genet Metab. 2025 Mar; 144(3):109052. 
															
								 
							
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Cardim LL, Costa MDCN, Rodrigues LC, Carvalho-Sauer R, Brickley EB, Ximenes RAA, Pescarini JM, Andrade RFS, Barreto ML, Teixeira MDGLC, Paixao ESD. All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality in Children With Congenital Zika Syndrome in Brazil. JAMA Netw Open. 2025 01 02; 8(1):e2456042. 
															
								 
							
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Solmi M, Croatto G, Fabiano N, Wong S, Gupta A, Fornaro M, Schneider LK, Rohani-Montez SC, Fairley L, Smith N, Bitter I, Gorwood P, Taipale H, Tiihonen J, Cortese S, Dragioti E, Rietz ED, Nielsen RE, Firth J, Fusar-Poli P, Hartman C, Holt RIG, Høye A, Koyanagi A, Larsson H, Lehto K, Lindgren P, Manchia M, Nordentoft M, Skonieczna-Zydecka K, Stubbs B, Vancampfort D, Vieta E, De Prisco M, Boyer L, Højlund M, Correll CU. Sex-stratified mortality estimates in people with schizophrenia: A systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies of 2,700,825 people with schizophrenia. Eur Neuropsychopharmacol. 2025 Feb; 91:56-66. 
															
								 
							
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He C, Breitner-Busch S, Huber V, Chen K, Zhang S, Gasparrini A, Bell M, Kan H, Royé D, Armstrong B, Schwartz J, Sera F, Vicedo-Cabrera AM, Honda Y, Jaakkola JJK, Ryti N, Kyselý J, Guo Y, Tong S, de'Donato F, Michelozzi P, Coelho MSZS, Saldiva PHN, Lavigne E, Orru H, Indermitte E, Pascal M, Goodman P, Zeka A, Kim Y, Diaz MH, Arellano EEF, Overcenco A, Klompmaker J, Rao S, Palomares AD, Carrasco G, Seposo X, Pereira da Silva SDN, Madureira J, Holobaca IH, Scovronick N, Acquaotta F, Kim H, Lee W, Hashizume M, Tobias A, Íñiguez C, Forsberg B, Ragettli MS, Guo YL, Pan SC, Osorio S, Li S, Zanobetti A, Dang TN, Van Dung D, Schneider A. Rainfall events and daily mortality across 645 global locations: two stage time series analysis. BMJ. 2024 10 09; 387:e080944. 
															
								 
							
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Berge J, Nordgaard J, Lindstrom S. Excess mortality and suicide risk in treatment-seeking individuals with schizotypal disorder: A population-based study using Swedish national registers. Psychiatry Res. 2024 Dec; 342:116223. 
															
								 
							
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Fowler X, Mehta K, Eid M, Gladders B, Kearing S, Moore KO, Creager MA, Austin AM, Feinberg MW, Bonaca MP, Greenland P, McDermott MM, Goodney PP. Trends in patient characteristics and mortality among Medicare patients diagnosed with peripheral artery disease. Vasc Med. 2024 12; 29(6):653-663. 
															
								 
							
				 	
			 	
			
			
		 
	 
 
       
																				
                                                                            
																		
																	 
																 
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