"Women's Health" 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 concept covering the physical and mental conditions of women.
| Descriptor ID |
D016387
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N01.400.900
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| Concept/Terms |
Women's Health- Women's Health
- Health, Women's
- Womens Health
- Health, Womens
- Woman's Health
- Health, Woman's
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Women's Health".
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Women's Health" by people in this website by year, and whether "Women's Health" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1998 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2000 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2001 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2002 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2003 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 2004 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| 2005 | 4 | 5 | 9 |
| 2006 | 7 | 7 | 14 |
| 2007 | 8 | 3 | 11 |
| 2008 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| 2009 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 2010 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2011 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2012 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2013 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2014 | 2 | 9 | 11 |
| 2015 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| 2016 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2017 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 2018 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2019 | 6 | 2 | 8 |
| 2020 | 3 | 7 | 10 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 | 11 | 11 |
| 2023 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Women's Health" by people in Profiles.
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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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Greater adherence to healthful dietary patterns is associated with lower insomnia risk in the Women's Health Initiative Observational Study. Sleep. 2026 Jan 13; 49(1).
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Sedentary behaviors and venous thromboembolism risk among older women: the Objective Physical Activity and Cardiovascular Health study. J Thromb Haemost. 2025 May; 23(5):1636-1647.
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A protocol for remote collection of skeletal muscle mass via D3-creatine dilution in community-dwelling postmenopausal women from the Women's Health Initiative. PLoS One. 2024; 19(4):e0300140.
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Pre-diagnosis lipid levels and mortality after obesity-related cancer diagnosis in the Women's Health Initiative cardiovascular disease biomarker cohort. Cancer Med. 2023 08; 12(15):16626-16636.
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Longitudinal profiles of neighborhood socioeconomic vulnerability influence blood pressure changes across the female midlife period. Health Place. 2023 Jul; 82:103033.
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Associations of maternal preterm birth with subsequent risk for type 2 diabetes in women from the women's health initiative. J Dev Orig Health Dis. 2023 06; 14(3):333-340.
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Association of Social Support with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia Among Older Women: The Women's Health Initiative Memory Study. J Alzheimers Dis. 2023; 91(3):1107-1119.
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Social Support, social ties, and cognitive function of women with breast cancer: findings from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) Life and Longevity After Cancer (LILAC) Study. Support Care Cancer. 2022 Dec 16; 31(1):48.
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Association between dietary inflammatory potential and mortality after cancer diagnosis in the Women's Health Initiative. Br J Cancer. 2023 Feb; 128(4):606-617.