"Gestational Age" 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.
The age of the conceptus, beginning from the time of FERTILIZATION. In clinical obstetrics, the gestational age is often estimated as the time from the last day of the last MENSTRUATION which is about 2 weeks before OVULATION and fertilization.
| Descriptor ID |
D005865
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G07.345.500.325.235.968 G08.686.320
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| Concept/Terms |
Gestational Age- Gestational Age
- Age, Gestational
- Ages, Gestational
- Gestational Ages
- Maturity, Chronologic Fetal
- Chronologic Fetal Maturity
- Fetal Maturity, Chronologic
- Fetal Age
- Age, Fetal
- Ages, Fetal
- Fetal Ages
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| 1999 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2006 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2008 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2009 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2010 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2011 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2012 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 2013 | 1 | 8 | 9 |
| 2014 | 1 | 7 | 8 |
| 2015 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2016 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2017 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2018 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2019 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2020 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2021 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2022 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2023 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2025 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2026 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Gestational Age" by people in Profiles.
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Gestational Exposure to 10 Classes of Priority Chemicals and Birth Outcomes in the ECHO Cohort. JAMA Netw Open. 2026 Jun 01; 9(6):e2618883.
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Prenatal exposure to gas stoves, mold, and water damage: Associations with gestational duration and fetal growth in the ECHO cohort. Environ Pollut. 2026 Jun 15; 399:128219.
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Residential mobility during pregnancy and birth outcomes in the United States: The environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Cohort (2010-2019). Ann Epidemiol. 2026 Mar; 115:15-22.
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Cumulative exposure to opioids and benzodiazepines in extremely preterm neonates. J Perinatol. 2026 Apr; 46(4):585-590.
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Prenatal Glucose Intolerance and Child Neurodevelopmental Disorders. JAMA Netw Open. 2025 11 03; 8(11):e2541657.
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Risk of preterm delivery and early pregnancy hydroxychloroquine use from a Californian lupus cohort. Lupus Sci Med. 2025 Sep 29; 12(2).
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Microbiome-related metabolites in early to midpregnancy and risk of fetal growth extremes: a metabolome-wide association study. Am J Clin Nutr. 2025 Nov; 122(5):1390-1399.
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Methods for modeling gestational weight gain: empirical application using electronic health record data from a safety net population. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2025 Jan 17; 25(1):35.
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Association of maternal education, neighborhood deprivation, and racial segregation with gestational age at birth by maternal race/ethnicity and United States Census region in the ECHO cohorts. Front Public Health. 2023; 11:1165089.
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NICU Versus Mother/Baby Unit Admission for Low-Acuity Infants Born at 35 Weeks' Gestation. Pediatrics. 2023 04 01; 151(4).