 Gestational Age
"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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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Gestational Age" by people in this website by year, and whether "Gestational Age" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 1996 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 1997 | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 1998 | 0 | 10 | 10 | | 1999 | 1 | 11 | 12 | | 2000 | 1 | 12 | 13 | | 2001 | 0 | 8 | 8 | | 2002 | 0 | 11 | 11 | | 2003 | 0 | 9 | 9 | | 2004 | 0 | 10 | 10 | | 2005 | 3 | 7 | 10 | | 2006 | 0 | 10 | 10 | | 2007 | 0 | 6 | 6 | | 2008 | 1 | 11 | 12 | | 2009 | 0 | 11 | 11 | | 2010 | 0 | 12 | 12 | | 2011 | 1 | 7 | 8 | | 2012 | 2 | 15 | 17 | | 2013 | 1 | 14 | 15 | | 2014 | 1 | 23 | 24 | | 2015 | 0 | 19 | 19 | | 2016 | 5 | 19 | 24 | | 2017 | 4 | 22 | 26 | | 2018 | 3 | 46 | 49 | | 2019 | 1 | 35 | 36 | | 2020 | 1 | 28 | 29 | | 2021 | 4 | 36 | 40 | | 2022 | 0 | 28 | 28 | | 2023 | 1 | 26 | 27 | | 2024 | 7 | 25 | 32 | | 2025 | 0 | 21 | 21 | | 2026 | 0 | 9 | 9 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Gestational Age" by people in Profiles.
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Bandoli G, Psaras C, Bakhireva LN, Burris HH, Ciciolla L, Coles CD, DeMauro SB, Osmundson SS, Merhar SL, Smith L, Acheson A, Bogdan R, Croff JM, Cutting LE, Conway KP, Fallin MD, Gao W, Garavan H, Gregory K, Gurka KK, Gurka MJ, Horan HL, Howlett KD, Howell BR, Huang H, Kable JA, LeBlanc KH, Linkersdörfer J, Marienfeld CB, McKelvey LM, Morris AS, Ou X, Peralta-Carcelen M, Pini N, Potter AS, Rogers CE, Sullivan EL, Sun S, Thompson WK, Thomason ME, Volk HE, Wilson S, Zgierska AE, Zink J, Smyser CD, Nelson CA, Chambers CD. Prenatal Substance Exposure and Birth Weight: Findings From the HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study. Pediatrics. 2026 Jun 01; 157(6).
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Placide J, Coyner AS, Ostmo SR, Moshfeghi DM, Chiang MF, Kim SJ, Kalpathy-Cramer J, Chan RVP, Young BK, Campbell JP. Precision Risk Model Using Quantitative Assessment of Vascular Severity in Telemedicine-Based Screening. JAMA Ophthalmol. 2026 05 01; 144(5):424-430.
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Meltzer GY, Duttweiler LP, Saleem S, Shankar K, Mazariegos M, Tshefu A, Patterson JK, Chomba E, Carlo WA, Goudar S, Derman R, Patel AB, Hibberd PL, Liechty E, Essamai F, Asturias E, Babineau DC, Moore J, Tuholske C, Zimmer A, Coull BA, McClure E, Goldenberg RL, Krebs N, Hoffman MK, Wylie BJ. Aspirin and Preterm Birth Among Pregnant People With Increased Heat Exposure: Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Netw Open. 2026 May 01; 9(5):e2611402.
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Singh P, Kumar S, Tyagi R, Young BK, Jordan BK, Scottoline B, Evers PD, Ostmo S, Coyner AS, Lin WC, Gupta A, Erdogmus D, Chan RVP, McCourt EA, Barry JS, McEvoy CT, Chiang MF, Campbell JP, Kalpathy-Cramer J. Deep Learning-Based Prediction of Cardiopulmonary Disease in Retinal Images of Premature Infants. JAMA Ophthalmol. 2026 Mar 01; 144(3):230-237.
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Tepper RS, Wagner BD, Bjerregaard J, Tiller C, Amos L, Sokol G, Adducci D, Abman SH. Differential Trajectories of Airway and Parenchymal Function in Infants Born Preterm. J Pediatr. 2026 Jun; 293:115025.
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Goin DE, Ghidey R, Schuh H, Dean LT, Barrett E, Bastain TM, Buckley JP, Bush NR, Camerota M, Carroll KN, Cragoe N, Cushing LJ, Dabelea D, Dunlop AL, Eick SM, Elliott AJ, Felson T, Geiger SD, Gilliland FD, James-Todd T, Kahn LG, Kasman M, Kuiper JR, Leventhal B, Lucchini M, Nelson M, Norman G, Nutor C, O'Shea TM, Padula AM, Schantz SL, Mehta-Lee SS, Steiger B, Woodruff TJ, Wright RJ, Morello-Frosch RA. Applying mixtures methodology to analyze how exposure to structural racism and economic disadvantage affect perinatal health outcomes: an ECHO study. Am J Epidemiol. 2026 Feb 05; 195(2):464-476.
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Tran MD, Baer RJ, Bandoli G, Robbins SL, Granet D, Chambers CD, Rudell JC. The relationship between maternal cannabis use disorder diagnosis and the development of retinopathy of prematurity. J AAPOS. 2026 Feb; 30(1):104748.
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D'Adamo A, Kress AM, Habre R, Towe-Goodman N, Desjardins MR, Alshawabkeh A, Aris IM, Camargo CA, Carroll KN, Cassidy-Bushrow AE, Chu SH, Civil Y, Craft AL, Croen LA, Deoni S, Dsa V, Dunlop AL, Elliott AJ, Ferrara A, Ganiban JM, Ghassabian A, Hartert T, Watts DJ, Karagas MR, Karr CJ, Koinis-Mitchell D, Kramer M, McEvoy CT, Mirzakhani H, O'Connor TG, Perng W, Schmidt RJ, Shah U, Tung I, Wright RJ, Knapp EA. 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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Guha A, Hunter SK, Legget KT, McHugo M, Tregellas JR. Greater Increase in Hippocampal Activity During the Early Postnatal Period After Preterm Birth Is Associated With Better Cognitive and Motor Outcomes at 18 Months. Dev Neurobiol. 2026 Jan; 86(1):e23018.
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Nzegwu AW, Dickerson AS, Miller K, Szpiro A, Hipwell AE, Elliot AJ, Padula AM, Dunlop AL, Starling AP, Ferrara A, Breton CV, Loftus CT, McEvoy CT, Dabelea D, Koinis-Mitchell D, Liang D, Oken E, Barrett ES, Volk H, Gern JE, Stanford JB, Herbstman JB, Wu J, Lyall K, Trasande L, Leve LD, Karagas MR, Pini N, Wright RJ, Nguyen RHN, Schantz SL, O'Connor TG, Sathyanarayana S, Karr CJ, Enquobahrie DA. Gestational fine particulate matter exposure and perinatal outcomes in the ECHO cohort: Associations across pregnancy windows. Environ Res. 2026 Mar 01; 292:123587.
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