"Life Expectancy" 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.
Based on known statistical data, the number of years which any person of a given age may reasonably expected to live.
| Descriptor ID |
D008017
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E05.318.308.985.450 N01.224.935.464 N06.850.505.400.975.450 N06.850.520.308.985.450
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| Concept/Terms |
Life Expectancy- Life Expectancy
- Expectancies, Life
- Expectancy, Life
- Life Expectancies
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Life Expectancy".
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Life Expectancy" by people in this website by year, and whether "Life Expectancy" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1999 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 2006 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2007 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2008 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2009 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2010 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 2011 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2012 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2013 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| 2014 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2015 | 2 | 6 | 8 |
| 2016 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2017 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2020 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2021 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2022 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Life Expectancy" by people in Profiles.
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New ASH initiatives to improve patient care in the long-overlooked sickle cell disease. Blood. 2023 07 20; 142(3):230-234.
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Years of life lost associated with COVID-19 deaths in the USA during the first 2 years of the pandemic. J Public Health (Oxf). 2022 08 25; 44(3):e353-e358.
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Years of life lost associated with COVID-19 deaths in the USA during the first year of the pandemic. J Public Health (Oxf). 2022 03 07; 44(1):e20-e25.
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Factors that influence clinicians' decisions to decrease active surveillance monitoring frequency or transition to watchful waiting for localised prostate cancer: a qualitative study. BMJ Open. 2021 11 12; 11(11):e048347.
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Individualizing Surveillance Mammography for Older Patients After Treatment for Early-Stage Breast Cancer: Multidisciplinary Expert Panel and International Society of Geriatric Oncology Consensus Statement. JAMA Oncol. 2021 Apr 01; 7(4):609-615.
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Years of life lost associated with COVID-19 deaths in the United States. J Public Health (Oxf). 2020 11 23; 42(4):717-722.
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Metastatic Spine Disease: Should Patients With Short Life Expectancy Be Denied Surgical Care? An International Retrospective Cohort Study. Neurosurgery. 2020 08 01; 87(2):303-311.
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Life expectancy estimates for patients diagnosed with prostate cancer in the Veterans Health Administration. Urol Oncol. 2020 09; 38(9):734.e1-734.e10.
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Second primary malignancies in blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm: A national database study. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2020 Dec; 83(6):1786-1789.
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European LeukemiaNet 2020 recommendations for treating chronic myeloid leukemia. Leukemia. 2020 04; 34(4):966-984.