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Age Distribution

"Age Distribution" 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 frequency of different ages or age groups in a given population. The distribution may refer to either how many or what proportion of the group. The population is usually patients with a specific disease but the concept is not restricted to humans and is not restricted to medicine.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Age Distribution" by people in this website by year, and whether "Age Distribution" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 73 publications over 23 distinct years, with a maximum of 8 publications in 2015
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