"North America" 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 northern continent of the Western Hemisphere, extending northward from the Colombia-Panama border and including CENTRAL AMERICA, MEXICO, Caribbean area, the UNITED STATES, CANADA and GREENLAND. The term often refers more narrowly to MEXICO, continental UNITED STATES, AND CANADA.
| Descriptor ID |
D009656
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| MeSH Number(s) |
Z01.107.567
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1999 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2000 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2001 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2002 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2006 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2007 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2008 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2009 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2010 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2011 | 0 | 11 | 11 |
| 2012 | 0 | 8 | 8 |
| 2013 | 0 | 8 | 8 |
| 2014 | 0 | 11 | 11 |
| 2015 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2016 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2017 | 0 | 14 | 14 |
| 2018 | 0 | 11 | 11 |
| 2019 | 0 | 12 | 12 |
| 2020 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| 2021 | 0 | 8 | 8 |
| 2022 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 2023 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| 2024 | 0 | 8 | 8 |
| 2025 | 0 | 8 | 8 |
| 2026 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "North America" by people in Profiles.
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Prone Positioning in a North American Cohort of Hypoxemic Patients on Mechanical Ventilation. Crit Care Med. 2026 Jul 01; 54(7):1597-1609.
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A Survey of Provider Practices for Diagnosis and Treatment of Pediatric Moderate Aplastic Anemia From the North American Pediatric Aplastic Anemia Consortium. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2026 Jul 01; 48(5):230-236.
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Lynch syndrome integrative epidemiology and genetics (LINEAGE): rationale for cohort design. Fam Cancer. 2026 05 06; 25(2).
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Rapid adaptation and extinction in synchronized outdoor evolution experiments of Arabidopsis. Science. 2026 Mar 26; 391(6792):eadz0777.
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Internal and external validation of a machine learning algorithm to detect preeclampsia-related adverse outcomes in high-risk pregnancies. Pregnancy Hypertens. 2026 Jun; 44:101457.
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Utilization of Key Morphologic and Molecular Prognostic and Predictive Parameters in Endometrial Malignancies: A Survey of Gynecologic Pathologists. Int J Surg Pathol. 2026 Aug; 34(5):1134-1145.
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Outcomes of endoscopic submucosal dissection for superficial esophageal squamous neoplasms: a multicenter North American experience. Gastrointest Endosc. 2026 07; 104(1):21-29.e1.
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Operating Without Direct Supervision During Pediatric Surgery Fellowship: When, How, and Why? J Pediatr Surg. 2025 Dec; 60(12):162711.
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The Silk Vista Baby Study: A Multicenter Aneurysm Report From North America and Europe. Neurosurgery. 2026 Feb 01; 98(2):464-473.
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Introgression, Phylogeography, and Genomic Species Cohesion in the Eastern North American White Oak Syngameon. Mol Ecol. 2025 Nov; 34(21):e17822.