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Age Factors

"Age Factors" 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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Age as a constituent element or influence contributing to the production of a result. It may be applicable to the cause or the effect of a circumstance. It is used with human or animal concepts but should be differentiated from AGING, a physiological process, and TIME FACTORS which refers only to the passage of time.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Age Factors" by people in this website by year, and whether "Age Factors" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 1287 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 87 publications in 2014
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