Disease MeSH identifiers — disease

A character vector containing Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) identifiers for all human diseases.

Usage

disease_ids

Format

A character vector.

Source

The disease MeSH identifiers were obtained from the National Library of Medicine's Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) database (https://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/).

Details

The `disease_ids` object is a character vector that contains MeSH identifiers (MeSH IDs) for various diseases. Each element in the vector represents a unique MeSH identifier, which can be used to identify and reference specific diseases in the MeSH taxonomy.

MeSH identifiers are hierarchically organized and provide a standardized way of representing and categorizing diseases and other medical concepts.

Examples

library(labyrinth)

data(disease_ids, package = "labyrinth")

length(disease_ids)
#> [1] 1098

# Check if a specific MeSH identifier is present
"D000544" %in% disease_ids  # Alzheimer's disease
#> [1] TRUE