"Caribbean Region" 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 area that lies between continental North and South America and comprises the Caribbean Sea, the West Indies, and the adjacent mainland regions of southern Mexico, Central America, Colombia, and Venezuela.
| Descriptor ID |
D017691
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| MeSH Number(s) |
Z01.107.084
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| 2002 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Caribbean Region" by people in Profiles.
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Risk perception, safer sex practices and PrEP enthusiasm: barriers and facilitators to oral HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis in Black African and Black Caribbean women in the UK. Sex Transm Infect. 2020 08; 96(5):349-354.
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Founder Effects of Spinocerebellar Ataxias in the American Continents and the Caribbean. Cerebellum. 2020 Jun; 19(3):446-458.
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Work Disability Among Native-born and Foreign-born Americans: On Origins, Health, and Social Safety Nets. Demography. 2017 12; 54(6):2273-2300.
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Modeling the emergence of contact languages. PLoS One. 2015; 10(4):e0120771.
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Placing cryptic, recently extinct, or hypothesized taxa into an ultrametric phylogeny using continuous character data: a case study with the lizard Anolis roosevelti. Evolution. 2015 Apr; 69(4):1027-35.
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Rodents of the Caribbean: origin and diversification of hutias unravelled by next-generation museomics. Biol Lett. 2014 Jul; 10(7).
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The chromosome 3q25 genomic region is associated with measures of adiposity in newborns in a multi-ethnic genome-wide association study. Hum Mol Genet. 2013 Sep 01; 22(17):3583-96.
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The politics of avoidable blindness in Latin America--surgery, solidarity, and solutions: the case of Misi?n Milagro. Int J Health Serv. 2012; 42(3):425-37.
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Relevance of evolutionary history for food web structure. Proc Biol Sci. 2012 Apr 22; 279(1733):1588-96.
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Wing patterning gene redefines the mimetic history of Heliconius butterflies. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Dec 06; 108(49):19666-71.