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Age of Onset

"Age of Onset" 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.

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The age, developmental stage, or period of life at which a disease or the initial symptoms or manifestations of a disease appear in an individual.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Age of Onset" by people in this website by year, and whether "Age of Onset" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 242 publications over 29 distinct years, with a maximum of 16 publications in 2015
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