Disease Progression

"Disease Progression" 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 worsening of a disease over time. This concept is most often used for chronic and incurable diseases where the stage of the disease is an important determinant of therapy and prognosis.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Disease Progression" by people in this website by year, and whether "Disease Progression" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 3451 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 210 publications in 2017
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