"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
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
E05.318.308.985.525.375 N01.224.935.597.500 N06.850.505.400.975.525.375 N06.850.520.308.985.525.375
|
| Concept/Terms |
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Incidence".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Incidence".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Incidence" by people in this website by year, and whether "Incidence" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text,
click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 1996 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 1997 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| 1998 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| 1999 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 2000 | 0 | 9 | 9 |
| 2001 | 0 | 12 | 12 |
| 2002 | 0 | 14 | 14 |
| 2003 | 0 | 13 | 13 |
| 2004 | 0 | 14 | 14 |
| 2005 | 0 | 27 | 27 |
| 2006 | 0 | 29 | 29 |
| 2007 | 0 | 35 | 35 |
| 2008 | 0 | 37 | 37 |
| 2009 | 0 | 27 | 27 |
| 2010 | 0 | 33 | 33 |
| 2011 | 0 | 34 | 34 |
| 2012 | 0 | 34 | 34 |
| 2013 | 0 | 57 | 57 |
| 2014 | 0 | 71 | 71 |
| 2015 | 0 | 63 | 63 |
| 2016 | 0 | 47 | 47 |
| 2017 | 2 | 43 | 45 |
| 2018 | 0 | 22 | 22 |
| 2019 | 0 | 29 | 29 |
| 2020 | 0 | 51 | 51 |
| 2021 | 0 | 30 | 30 |
| 2022 | 0 | 24 | 24 |
| 2023 | 0 | 9 | 9 |
| 2024 | 0 | 11 | 11 |
| 2025 | 0 | 29 | 29 |
| 2026 | 0 | 28 | 28 |
To return to the timeline,
click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Incidence" by people in Profiles.
-
Incidence of opioid use disorder among patients prescribed long-term opioid therapy: An observational study. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2026 Nov 01; 288:113385.
-
Reproductive Characteristics, Postmenopausal Obesity, and Cardiovascular Disease Incidence in the Women's Health Initiative. J Am Heart Assoc. 2026 Oct 06; 15(19):e049882.
-
Estimating cumulative incidence from partially missing time series of respiratory viral infections. PLoS One. 2026; 21(9):e0353681.
-
Incidence, medical therapy, and outcomes in heart failure with improved ejection fraction across guideline definitions. Am Heart J. 2027 Jan; 303:107595.
-
Clinical modifiers of the association between type 1 diabetes and dementia incidence. Alzheimers Dement. 2026 Sep; 22(9):e71799.
-
Incidence of dementia after age 90 years and association with APOE genotype, race, and sex in the USA: the LifeAfter90 prospective cohort study. Lancet Healthy Longev. 2026 07; 7(7):100882.
-
Cardiovascular and Kidney Events Associated with Visit-to-Visit Blood Pressure Variability among Young Adults with Hypertension. Am J Hypertens. 2026 Aug 01; 39(8):988-996.
-
Epidemiology, clinical characteristics, and outcomes for heart failure with improved ejection fraction by chronological age. ESC Heart Fail. 2026 Jul 04; 13(4).
-
Venous Thromboembolism Risk and Prevention After Gastrointestinal Cancer Surgery: Real World Evidence From a Large Integrated Healthcare System. J Surg Oncol. 2026 Aug; 134(2):248-256.
-
Blunt Tibial Injury Is Associated With Primary Amputation for Lower Extremity Vascular Trauma. J Surg Res. 2026 Jul; 323:159-164.