Pakistan

"Pakistan" 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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A country located in southern Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea, between India on the east and Iran and Afghanistan on the west and China in the north. The capital is Islamabad.

Descriptor ID	D010154
MeSH Number(s)	Z01.252.245.723
Concept/Terms	Pakistan Pakistan Islamic Republic of Pakistan

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Geographicals [Z]
Geographic Locations [Z01]
Asia [Z01.252]
Asia, Western [Z01.252.245]
Pakistan [Z01.252.245.723]

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Bar chart showing 17 publications over 12 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2024

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Year	Minor Topic	Total
2009	1	1
2012	2	2
2013	2	2
2014	1	1
2015	1	1
2016	1	1
2017	1	1
2018	1	1
2020	1	1
2022	1	1
2024	3	3
2025	2	2

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Khan UI, Shah S, Qureshi A, Viswanathan S, Merchant AT, Virani SS, Wylie-Rosett J, Noornabi Y. Burden of cardiometabolic diseases and depression in a low-income, urban community in Pakistan: a cross-sectional survey. BMC Public Health. 2025 Feb 24; 25(1):757.

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Khan FF, Haq MSU, Ashfaq A, Saud M, Ibrahim A. Monster of the Night: Identifying Pakistani Gender-Based, Religious, and Cultural Influences on Sleep Paralysis Among University Students. Cult Med Psychiatry. 2025 Sep; 49(3):561-584.

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Chaudhry IB, Husain MO, Khoso AB, Kiran T, Husain MI, Qurashi I, Rahman RU, Mehmood N, Drake R, Husain N, Deakin B. Beneficial adjunctive effects of the 5HT3 receptor antagonist ondansetron on symptoms, function and cognition in early phase schizophrenia in a double-blind, 2 ? 2 factorial design, randomised controlled comparison with simvastatin. J Psychopharmacol. 2024 Sep; 38(9):818-826.

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Khan UI, Shah S, Viswanathan S, Qureshi A, Noornabi Y, Niaz M, Wylie-Rosett J. Integrating a Community-Based Health Information System with a Patient-Centered Medical Home to improve care of patients with hypertension: a longitudinal observational study protocol. BMC Health Serv Res. 2024 Apr 27; 24(1):540.

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Janiad S, Lindblad P, Ahmed M. Lipid Accumulation and Biodiesel Production from Filamentous Cyanobacteria Native to Pakistan. J Oleo Sci. 2024; 73(10):1295-1310.

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Peerwani G, Khan SM, Khan MD, Bashir F, Sheikh S, Ramsey DJ, Aijaz S, Samad Z, Malik R, Hanif B, Virani SS. Gender Differences in Clinical Outcomes After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention-Analysis of 15,106 Patients from the Cardiac Registry of Pakistan Database. Am J Cardiol. 2023 02 01; 188:61-67.

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Steinig E, Aglua I, Duchene S, Meehan MT, Yoannes M, Firth C, Jaworski J, Drekore J, Urakoko B, Poka H, Wurr C, Ebos E, Nangen D, M?ller E, Mulvey P, Jackson C, Blomfeldt A, Aamot HV, Laman M, Manning L, Earls M, Coleman DC, Greenhill A, Ford R, Stegger M, Syed MA, Jamil B, Monecke S, Ehricht R, Smith S, Pomat W, Horwood P, Tong SYC, McBryde E. Phylodynamic signatures in the emergence of community-associated MRSA. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 Nov 08; 119(45):e2204993119.

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Javed S, McClure J, Syed MA, Obasuyi O, Ali S, Tabassum S, Ejaz M, Zhang K. Epidemiology and molecular characterization of Staphylococcus aureus causing bovine mastitis in water buffaloes from the Hazara division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. PLoS One. 2022; 17(5):e0268152.

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Hassan L, Ali S, Syed MA, Shah AA, Abbasi SA, Tabassum S, Saeed U, Melzer F, Khan AU, El-Adawy H, Neubauer H. Risk Factors for Acute Brucellosis in Patients on the Day of Admission at Selected Hospitals of Abbottabad, Pakistan. Front Public Health. 2021; 9:669278.

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Ejaz M, Syed MA. COVID-19 third wave: a challenge for overburdened and underdeveloped healthcare system of Pakistan. Turk J Med Sci. 2021 Oct; 51(5):2789-2791.

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