"Walking" 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.
An activity in which the body advances at a slow to moderate pace by moving the feet in a coordinated fashion. This includes recreational walking, walking for fitness, and competitive race-walking.
| Descriptor ID |
D016138
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G11.427.410.568.900 G11.427.410.698.277.937 I03.350.937 I03.450.642.845.940
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| Concept/Terms |
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Walking" by people in this website by year, and whether "Walking" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1997 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 1998 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2000 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2001 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2007 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2009 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2010 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2011 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2012 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2013 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2014 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2015 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2016 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2017 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2018 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2019 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2020 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2021 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 2022 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2023 | 0 | 9 | 9 |
| 2024 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2025 | 7 | 1 | 8 |
| 2026 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Walking" by people in Profiles.
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The undulating tripod gait as a model of the locomotion of walking fish. Nat Commun. 2026 06 02; 17(1).
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EEG-Controlled Exoskeleton for Walking and Standing: A Longitudinal Multimodal Dataset of Healthy Individuals. Sci Data. 2026 Jun 01; 13(1).
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Change in walking cadence as a digital outcome measure of clinically meaningful improvement in gait speed and 6-minute walk test distance after a mobility intervention in older adults. PLoS One. 2026; 21(5):e0337414.
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Community-based recruitment with ankle brachial index testing to identify peripheral artery disease participants for randomized clinical trials. Am Heart J. 2026 Oct; 300:107450.
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Metformin to Improve Walking Performance in Lower Extremity Peripheral Artery Disease: The PERMET Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA. 2026 Feb 03; 335(5):407-415.
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How peak knee loads are affected by changing the mass of lower-limb body segments during walking. PLoS Comput Biol. 2025 09; 21(9):e1012833.
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Duration of Supervised Exercise Necessary for Meaningful Improvement in Peripheral Artery Disease. J Am Heart Assoc. 2025 09 16; 14(18):e040058.
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Comparison of ankle dorsiflexion using XROMM and external angular kinematics in a quadrupedally walking macaque. J Exp Biol. 2025 Sep 01; 228(17).
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Walking cadence as a measure of activity intensity and impact on functional capacity for prefrail and frail older adults. PLoS One. 2025; 20(7):e0323759.
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Three-dimensional lower limb kinematics and kinetics in femoroacetabular impingement syndrome (FAIS) patients with and without borderline developmental dysplasia of the hip (BDDH) during level walking. BMC Musculoskelet Disord. 2025 May 16; 26(1):488.