 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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| 1995 | 0 | 6 | 6 | | 1996 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 1997 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 1998 | 0 | 9 | 9 | | 1999 | 1 | 11 | 12 | | 2000 | 1 | 12 | 13 | | 2001 | 0 | 9 | 9 | | 2002 | 0 | 9 | 9 | | 2003 | 0 | 8 | 8 | | 2004 | 0 | 11 | 11 | | 2005 | 2 | 7 | 9 | | 2006 | 0 | 9 | 9 | | 2007 | 0 | 6 | 6 | | 2008 | 1 | 9 | 10 | | 2009 | 0 | 11 | 11 | | 2010 | 0 | 11 | 11 | | 2011 | 1 | 7 | 8 | | 2012 | 2 | 15 | 17 | | 2013 | 2 | 13 | 15 | | 2014 | 1 | 23 | 24 | | 2015 | 0 | 17 | 17 | | 2016 | 5 | 14 | 19 | | 2017 | 4 | 19 | 23 | | 2018 | 1 | 33 | 34 | | 2019 | 0 | 26 | 26 | | 2020 | 1 | 22 | 23 | | 2021 | 4 | 33 | 37 | | 2022 | 0 | 24 | 24 | | 2023 | 1 | 22 | 23 | | 2024 | 6 | 24 | 30 | | 2025 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Gestational Age" by people in Profiles.
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Li Y, Jones K, Ober C, Starling AP, Gower WA, Bacharier LB, Chandran A, Dabelea DM, Fry RC, Gold DR, Hansen KD, Herbstman JB, Hivert MF, Keet C, Miller RL, Jacobson LP, Ladd-Acosta C. Newborn blood DNA methylation and childhood asthma: findings from the ECHO program. Int J Epidemiol. 2025 Apr 12; 54(3).
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Walsh CJ, Nystrom JT, Silveira LJ, Meyers ML. Is that bowel normal? Nomograms for fetal colon and rectum measurements by MRI from 20-36?weeks' gestation. Pediatr Radiol. 2025 May; 55(5):987-998.
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Walsh CJ, Meyers ML, Chandnani N, Barker AJ, Fujiwara T, Mirsky DM, Englund EK. Quantitative evaluation of placental microvascular blood flow and microstructure in fetal growth restriction with IVIM MRI. Pediatr Radiol. 2025 Mar; 55(3):546-555.
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Tepper RS, Wagner BD, Bjerregaard J, Tiller C, Amos L, Sokol G, Adducci D, Abman SH. Physiologic Pulmonary Phenotyping of Infants Born Preterm and Post-Discharge Respiratory Morbidity. J Pediatr. 2025 Apr; 279:114475.
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Campbell MA, Grove NC, McDuffie RS, Auer EA, McReynolds AJ, McCourt EA, Wymore EM, Mandava N, Wagner BD, Mathias MT, Oliver SCN, Jung JL, Lynch AM. The relationship between discordant birth weight in twin pairs and the development of retinopathy of prematurity. J AAPOS. 2025 Feb; 29(1):104095.
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Cohen NJ, Rifas-Shiman SL, Soria-Contreras DC, Perng W, Hivert MF, Oken E, Chavarro JE, Minguez-Alarcon L. Associations of gestation length and offspring birthweight for gestational age with menopausal symptoms and age of natural menopause at midlife among women enrolled in a prebirth longitudinal cohort. Menopause. 2025 Apr 01; 32(4):323-330.
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Hwang SS, Bourque SL, Hannan KE, Passarella M, Radack J, Formanowski B, Lorch SA. Individual-, Hospital-, and Community-Level Factors Associated with Sudden Unexpected Infant Death Among Infants Born Preterm in 5 US States. J Pediatr. 2025 Mar; 278:114445.
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Wiegel RE, Baker K, Calderon-Toledo C, Gomez R, Guti?rrez-Cortez S, Houck JA, Larrea A, Lazo-Vega L, Moore LG, Pisc J, Toledo-Jaldin L, Julian CG. Impaired maternal central hemodynamics precede the onset of vascular disorders of pregnancy at high altitude. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2025 Jan 01; 328(1):H174-H185.
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Englund EK, Fujiwara T, Smith SA, Meyers ML, Friesen RM, Browne LP, Barker AJ. Reliability of 4D Flow MRI for Investigation of Fetal Cardiovascular Hemodynamics in the Third Trimester. Radiol Cardiothorac Imaging. 2024 Dec; 6(6):e240119.
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Kalluri NS, Cordova-Ramos EG, Hwang SS, Standish KR, Parker MG. National Trends in Breastfeeding by Gestational Age Category. J Pediatr. 2025 Feb; 277:114388.
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