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Descriptor English: Age of Onset
Descriptor Spanish: Edad de Inicio
Descriptor edad de comienzo
Scope note: Edad, estadio del desarrollo o periodo de la vida en la que aparece en un individuo una enfermedad o los síntomas y manifestaciones de una enfermedad.
Descriptor Portuguese: Idade de Início
Descriptor French: Âge de début
Entry term(s): Age at Onset
Age-at-Onset
Onset Age
Tree number(s): N05.715.350.075.100
N06.850.490.250.100
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D017668
Scope note: The age, developmental stage, or period of life at which a disease or the initial symptoms or manifestations of a disease appear in an individual.
Annotation: IM general only; coordinate NIM with specific disease (IM); not for routine age of onset of disease in individual case reports
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
Previous Indexing: Age Factors (1966-1993)
Public MeSH Note: 94
History Note: 94
DeCS ID: 31669
Unique ID: D017668
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Date Established: 1994/01/01
Date of Entry: 1992/12/28
Revision Date: 2015/07/07
Age of Onset - Preferred
Concept UI M0026723
Scope note The age, developmental stage, or period of life at which a disease or the initial symptoms or manifestations of a disease appear in an individual.
Preferred term Age of Onset
Entry term(s) Age at Onset
Age-at-Onset
Onset Age



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