"Social Class" 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.
A stratum of people with similar position and prestige; includes social stratification. Social class is measured by criteria such as education, occupation, and income.
| Descriptor ID |
D012923
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| MeSH Number(s) |
I01.880.853.996.755 N01.824.782
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| Concept/Terms |
Social Class- Social Class
- Class, Social
- Classes, Social
- Social Classes
Middle Class Population- Middle Class Population
- Class Population, Middle
- Class Populations, Middle
- Middle Class Populations
- Population, Middle Class
- Populations, Middle Class
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Social Class" by people in this website by year, and whether "Social Class" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2001 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2002 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2003 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2008 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2009 | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| 2010 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2011 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2012 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2013 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2014 | 2 | 9 | 11 |
| 2015 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2016 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 2017 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2018 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2019 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 2020 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2021 | 1 | 7 | 8 |
| 2022 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2023 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2024 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Social Class" by people in Profiles.
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Abdallah N, Ismayl M, Mohamoud A, Samra M, Goldsweig AM. Socioeconomic disparities in In-hospital outcomes and readmission rates among patients hospitalized with infective endocarditis: A national analysis from the United States. Heart Lung. 2025 Nov-Dec; 74:206-210.
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Griswold MK, Crawford SL, Person SD, Rosenberg L, Palmer JR, Cozier YC. Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Breastfeeding Initiation and Duration Among Primiparous Black Women. Breastfeed Med. 2025 May; 20(5):310-319.
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Doan TD, Suh L, Wu M, Cherng N, Perugini R. The role of socioeconomic status in resolution of type 2 diabetes mellitus following longitudinal sleeve gastrectomy. Surg Endosc. 2025 01; 39(1):568-576.
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Sandre A, Troller-Renfree SV, Giebler MA, Meyer JS, Noble KG. Prenatal family income, but not parental education, is associated with resting brain activity in 1-month-old infants. Sci Rep. 2024 06 13; 14(1):13638.
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Call C, Oran A, O'Shea TM, Jensen ET, Frazier JA, Vaidya R, Shenberger J, Gogcu S, Msall ME, Kim S, Jalnapurkar I, Fry RC, Singh R. Health-related quality of life at age 10 years in children born extremely preterm. J Perinatol. 2024 Jun; 44(6):835-843.
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Ruiz-Yu B, Le TP, Weintraub MJ, Zinberg J, Addington J, O'Brien MP, Walsh BC, Friedman-Yakoobian M, Auther A, Domingues I, Cannon TD, Miklowitz DJ, Bearden CE. Race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status as predictors of outcome following family therapy in youth at clinical high risk for psychosis. Early Interv Psychiatry. 2024 Dec; 18(12):981-990.
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Gaalema DE, Khadanga S, Pack QR. Clinical challenges facing patient participation in cardiac rehabilitation: cigarette smoking. Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther. 2023 Jul-Dec; 21(11):733-745.
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Mar?co JL, Manafi MM, Hayman LL. Race and Ethnicity Disparities in Cardiovascular and Cancer Mortality: the Role of Socioeconomic Status-a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2025 Feb; 12(1):285-297.
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Nguyen M, Gonzalez L, Stain SC, Dardik A, Chaudhry SI, Desai MM, Boatright D, Butler PD. Association of Socioeconomic Status, Sex, Racial, and Ethnic Identity With Sustained and Cultivated Careers in Surgery. Ann Surg. 2024 Mar 01; 279(3):367-373.
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Bergstra SA, Sepriano A, Chopra A, Winchow LL, Vega-Morales D, Salomon-Escoto K, Matthijssen XME, Landew? RB. Country-level socioeconomic status relates geographical latitude to the onset of RA: a worldwide cross-sectional analysis in the METEOR registry. Ann Rheum Dis. 2023 08; 82(8):1018-1024.