Case-Control Studies

"Case-Control Studies" 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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Comparisons that start with the identification of persons with the disease or outcome of interest and a control (comparison, referent) group without the disease or outcome of interest. The relationship of an attribute is examined by comparing both groups with regard to the frequency or levels of outcome over time.

Descriptor ID	D016022
MeSH Number(s)	E05.318.760.500.500 N05.715.360.775.175.200 N06.850.520.450.500.500
Concept/Terms	Case-Control Studies Case-Control Studies Case-Control Study Studies, Case-Control Study, Case-Control Case-Comparison Studies Case Comparison Studies Case-Comparison Study Studies, Case-Comparison Study, Case-Comparison Case-Compeer Studies Studies, Case-Compeer Case-Referrent Studies Case Referrent Studies Case-Referrent Study Studies, Case-Referrent Study, Case-Referrent Case-Referent Studies Case Referent Studies Case-Referent Study Studies, Case-Referent Study, Case-Referent Case-Base Studies Case Base Studies Studies, Case-Base Case Control Studies Case Control Study Studies, Case Control Study, Case Control Nested Case-Control Studies Nested Case-Control Studies Case-Control Studies, Nested Case-Control Study, Nested Nested Case Control Studies Nested Case-Control Study Studies, Nested Case-Control Study, Nested Case-Control Matched Case-Control Studies Matched Case-Control Studies Case-Control Studies, Matched Case-Control Study, Matched Matched Case Control Studies Matched Case-Control Study Studies, Matched Case-Control Study, Matched Case-Control

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Case-Control Studies".

Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment [E]
Investigative Techniques [E05]
Epidemiologic Methods [E05.318]
Epidemiologic Study Characteristics [E05.318.760]
Epidemiologic Studies [E05.318.760.500]
Case-Control Studies [E05.318.760.500.500]
Health Care [N]
Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation [N05]
Quality of Health Care [N05.715]
Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms [N05.715.360]
Epidemiologic Study Characteristics [N05.715.360.775]
Epidemiologic Studies [N05.715.360.775.175]
Case-Control Studies [N05.715.360.775.175.200]
Environment and Public Health [N06]
Public Health [N06.850]
Epidemiologic Methods [N06.850.520]
Epidemiologic Study Characteristics [N06.850.520.450]
Epidemiologic Studies [N06.850.520.450.500]
Case-Control Studies [N06.850.520.450.500.500]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is related to "Case-Control Studies".

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Case-Control Studies".

Case-Control Studies
Retrospective Studies

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Bar chart showing 883 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 53 publications in 2014

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1995	0	9	9
1996	0	12	12
1997	0	12	12
1998	0	11	11
1999	0	9	9
2000	0	10	10
2001	0	11	11
2002	0	16	16
2003	0	26	26
2004	0	26	26
2005	0	32	32
2006	0	34	34
2007	0	32	32
2008	1	35	36
2009	0	33	33
2010	0	44	44
2011	0	38	38
2012	1	48	49
2013	2	46	48
2014	0	53	53
2015	0	33	33
2016	0	44	44
2017	0	37	37
2018	1	41	42
2019	0	47	47
2020	0	46	46
2021	0	40	40
2022	0	16	16
2023	0	14	14
2024	0	15	15
2025	0	8	8

Below are the most recent publications written about "Case-Control Studies" by people in Profiles.

Tu W, Gawrieh S, Nephew L, McClain C, Tang Q, Dasarathy S, Vatsalya V, Simonetto DA, Kettler C, Szabo G, Barton B, Yu Y, Kamath PS, Sanyal AJ, Nagy L, Mitchell MC, Liangpunsakul S, Shah VH, Chalasani N, Bataller R. Parental liver disease mortality is associated with unfavorable outcomes in patients with alcohol-associated hepatitis. Hepatol Commun. 2025 Jun 01; 9(6).

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Sobota RS, Stucke EM, Coulibaly D, Lawton JG, Cummings BE, Sebastian S, Dara A, Munro JB, Ouattara A, Kone AK, Kane B, Traor? K, Guindo B, Tangara BM, Niangaly A, Ventimiglia NT, Daou M, Diarra I, Tolo Y, Sissoko M, Maiga F, Diawara A, Traore A, Thera A, Laurens MB, Lyke KE, Kouriba B, Doumbo OK, Plowe CV, Goodlett DR, Silva JC, Thera MA, Travassos MA. A shared inflammatory signature across severe malaria syndromes manifested by transcriptomic, proteomic and metabolomic analyses. Nat Commun. 2025 May 18; 16(1):4620.

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Choi SH, Jurgens SJ, Xiao L, Hill MC, Haggerty CM, Sveinbj?rnsson G, Morrill VN, Marston NA, Weng LC, Pirruccello JP, Arnar DO, Gudbjartsson DF, Mantineo H, von Falkenhausen AS, Natale A, Tveit A, Geelhoed B, Roselli C, Van Wagoner DR, Darbar D, Haase D, Soliman EZ, Davogustto GE, Jun G, Calkins H, Anderson JL, Brody JA, Halford JL, Barnard J, Hokanson JE, Smith JD, Bis JC, Young K, Johnson LSB, Risch L, Gula LJ, Kwee LC, Chaffin MD, K?hne M, Preuss M, Gupta N, Nafissi NA, Smith NL, Nilsson PM, van der Harst P, Wells QS, Judy RL, Schnabel RB, Johnson R, Smit RAJ, Gabriel S, Knight S, Furukawa T, Blackwell TW, Nauffal V, Wang X, Min YI, Yoneda ZT, Laksman ZWM, Bezzina CR, Alonso A, Psaty BM, Albert CM, Arking DE, Roden DM, Chasman DI, Rader DJ, Conen D, McManus DD, Fatkin D, Benjamin EJ, Boerwinkle E, Marcus GM, Christophersen IE, Smith JG, Roberts JD, Raffield LM, Shoemaker MB, Cho MH, Cutler MJ, Rienstra M, Chung MK, S Olesen M, Sinner MF, Sotoodehnia N, Kirchhof P, Loos RJF, Nazarian S, Mohanty S, Damrauer SM, Kaab S, Heckbert SR, Redline S, Shah SH, Tanaka T, Ebana Y, Holm H, Stefansson K, Ruff CT, Sabatine MS, Lunetta KL, Lubitz SA, Ellinor PT. Sequencing in over 50,000 cases identifies coding and structural variation underlying atrial fibrillation risk. Nat Genet. 2025 Mar; 57(3):548-562.

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Cooper KM, Patel AK, Kaluri S, Devuni D. Pregnancy and liver-related outcomes after alcohol-associated hepatitis: A global multicenter study. Hepatol Commun. 2025 Mar 01; 9(3).

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Tissera KA, Buros-Stein A, Delva CA, Mayur O, Hawryluk EB, Harris J, Garza-Mayers AC. No Association of Pediatric Vitiligo With Visual Acuity Deficits. Pediatr Dermatol. 2025 Mar-Apr; 42(2):318-321.

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Kolstad J, Zoppo C, Johnston JM, D'Souza P, K?hn AL, Vardar Z, Peker A, Hader A, Celik H, Lewis CJ, Lindsay C, Rentiya ZS, Lebel C, Vedantham S, Vachha B, Gray-Edwards HL, Acosta MT, Tifft CJ, Shazeeb MS. Natural history progression of MRI brain volumetrics in type II late-infantile and juvenile GM1 gangliosidosis patients. Mol Genet Metab. 2025 Mar; 144(3):109025.

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