"Incidence" 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.
The number of new cases of a given disease during a given period in a specified population. It also is used for the rate at which new events occur in a defined population. It is differentiated from PREVALENCE, which refers to all cases, new or old, in the population at a given time.
| Descriptor ID |
D015994
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E05.318.308.985.525.375 L01.280.975.525.375 N01.224.935.597.500 N06.850.505.400.975.525.375 N06.850.520.308.985.525.375
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Incidence".
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1996 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 1997 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 1998 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 1999 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2000 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2001 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| 2002 | 0 | 13 | 13 |
| 2003 | 0 | 24 | 24 |
| 2004 | 0 | 19 | 19 |
| 2005 | 0 | 32 | 32 |
| 2006 | 0 | 30 | 30 |
| 2007 | 0 | 19 | 19 |
| 2008 | 0 | 28 | 28 |
| 2009 | 0 | 35 | 35 |
| 2010 | 0 | 32 | 32 |
| 2011 | 0 | 39 | 39 |
| 2012 | 0 | 52 | 52 |
| 2013 | 0 | 44 | 44 |
| 2014 | 0 | 75 | 75 |
| 2015 | 0 | 66 | 66 |
| 2016 | 0 | 78 | 78 |
| 2017 | 0 | 91 | 91 |
| 2018 | 0 | 69 | 69 |
| 2019 | 0 | 60 | 60 |
| 2020 | 0 | 49 | 49 |
| 2021 | 0 | 19 | 19 |
| 2022 | 0 | 15 | 15 |
| 2023 | 0 | 9 | 9 |
| 2024 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
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