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Descriptor English: Noncommunicable Diseases
Descriptor Spanish: Enfermedades no Transmisibles
Descriptor enfermedades no transmisibles
Entry term(s) enfermedades crónicas no transmisibles
enfermedades no infecciosas
Scope note: Enfermedades que son característicamente de origen no infeccioso y que no se transmiten de una persona afectada a otras. Los cuatro grupos principales de enfermedades no transmisibles son las ENFERMEDADES CARDIOVASCULARES (p. ej., el infarto de miocardio y los accidentes cerebrovasculares), el CÁNCER, las enfermedades respiratorias crónicas (p. ej., la ENFERMEDAD PULMONAR OBSTRUCTIVA CRÓNICA y el ASMA) y la DIABETES MELLITUS.
Descriptor Portuguese: Doenças não Transmissíveis
Descriptor French: Maladies non transmissibles
Entry term(s): Chronic Disease, Non-communicable
Disease, Non-communicable
Non communicable Chronic Diseases
Non communicable Diseases
Non infectious Diseases
Non-communicable Chronic Disease
Non-communicable Chronic Diseases
Non-communicable Disease
Non-communicable Diseases
Non-infectious Disease
Non-infectious Diseases
Noncommunicable Disease
Noninfectious Disease
Noninfectious Diseases
Tree number(s): C23.550.291.898
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000073296
Scope note: Diseases which are typically non-infectious in origin and do not transmit from an affected individual to others. The four main types of noncommunicable diseases are CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES (e.g., heart attacks and stroke), CANCER, chronic respiratory diseases (e.g., CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE and ASTHMA) and DIABETES MELLITUS.
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EP epidemiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PC prevention & control
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
TH therapy
Public MeSH Note: 2018
History Note: 2018
DeCS ID: 56960
Unique ID: D000073296
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Date Established: 2018/01/01
Date of Entry: 2017/07/11
Revision Date: 2019/05/06
Noncommunicable Diseases - Preferred
Concept UI M000621200
Scope note Diseases which are typically non-infectious in origin and do not transmit from an affected individual to others. The four main types of noncommunicable diseases are CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES (e.g., heart attacks and stroke), CANCER, chronic respiratory diseases (e.g., CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE and ASTHMA) and DIABETES MELLITUS.
Preferred term Noncommunicable Diseases
Entry term(s) Disease, Non-communicable
Non communicable Diseases
Non infectious Diseases
Non-communicable Disease
Non-communicable Diseases
Non-infectious Disease
Non-infectious Diseases
Noncommunicable Disease
Noninfectious Disease
Noninfectious Diseases
Non-communicable Chronic Diseases - Narrower
Concept UI M000631048
Preferred term Non-communicable Chronic Diseases
Entry term(s) Chronic Disease, Non-communicable
Non communicable Chronic Diseases
Non-communicable Chronic Disease



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