"Adiposity" 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 amount of fat or lipid deposit at a site or an organ in the body, an indicator of body fat status.
| Descriptor ID |
D050154
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E01.370.600.115.100.062.500 G02.111.130.134.500 G03.180.134.500 G07.100.049.134.500
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| Concept/Terms |
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Adiposity".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Adiposity".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Adiposity" by people in this website by year, and whether "Adiposity" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2009 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2010 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2011 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2013 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2014 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2015 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2018 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2019 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2020 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2025 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2026 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Adiposity" by people in Profiles.
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Relationships Between Regional and Ectopic Adiposity and Insulin Sensitivity in Early and Late Pregnancy. Diabetes Care. 2026 07 01; 49(7):1175-1184.
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DXA-Derived Abdominal Adiposity and Obesity-Related Cancer Risk Among Postmenopausal Women in the Women's Health Initiative. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2026 May; 34(5):997-1009.
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Association between thoracic adiposity and survival in non-metastatic breast cancer. Breast Cancer Res. 2025 Oct 14; 27(1):176.
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Dual-energy X-ray Absorptiometry-Derived Adiposity and Colorectal Cancer Incidence and Mortality in Postmenopausal Women. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2025 Oct 03; 34(10):1801-1809.
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Overall and central adiposity and risk of contralateral breast cancer: The California Breast Cancer Survivorship Consortium. Int J Cancer. 2026 Jan 01; 158(1):69-83.
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Racial and ethnic variation in body composition and prognosis of nonmetastatic breast cancer. Cancer. 2025 Jun 15; 131(12):e35926.
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Changes in anthropometry, adiposity, and inflammation in Black and White women engaged in intentional weight loss. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2024 Dec; 32(12):2398-2409.
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Mammographic density mediates the protective effect of early-life body size on breast cancer risk. Nat Commun. 2024 May 13; 15(1):4021.
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A comparison of associations of body mass index and dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry measured percentage fat and total fat with global serum metabolites in young women. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2023 02; 31(2):525-536.
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Childhood adiposity, serum metabolites and breast density in young women. Breast Cancer Res. 2022 12 19; 24(1):91.