"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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| 1994 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1999 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2006 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 2009 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2010 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2011 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2012 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 2013 | 1 | 8 | 9 |
| 2014 | 1 | 7 | 8 |
| 2015 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2016 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2017 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2018 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2019 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 2020 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 2021 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2022 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2023 | 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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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).
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Infants with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia Exhibit Thalamic Discrepancies in Early Brain Structure. Horm Res Paediatr. 2023; 96(5):509-517.
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The clinical burden of extremely preterm birth in a large medical records database in the United States: complications, medication use, and healthcare resource utilization. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2022 Dec; 35(26):10271-10278.
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Associations between combined exposure to environmental hazards and social stressors at the neighborhood level and individual perinatal outcomes in the ECHO-wide cohort. Health Place. 2022 07; 76:102858.
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The Childhood Vaccination Schedule and the Lack of Association With Type 1 Diabetes. Pediatrics. 2021 12 01; 148(6).
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Neonates with mild hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy receiving supportive care versus therapeutic hypothermia in California. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed. 2022 May; 107(3):324-328.
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Racial and geographic variation in effects of maternal education and neighborhood-level measures of socioeconomic status on gestational age at birth: Findings from the ECHO cohorts. PLoS One. 2021; 16(1):e0245064.
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Association Between Epidural Analgesia During Labor and Risk of Autism Spectrum Disorders in Offspring. JAMA Pediatr. 2020 12 01; 174(12):1168-1175.
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Time to Positivity of Neonatal Blood Cultures for Early-onset Sepsis. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2020 07; 39(7):634-640.