 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 | 8 | 8 | | 1999 | 1 | 11 | 12 | | 2000 | 1 | 12 | 13 | | 2001 | 0 | 9 | 9 | | 2002 | 0 | 9 | 9 | | 2003 | 0 | 8 | 8 | | 2004 | 0 | 12 | 12 | | 2005 | 2 | 7 | 9 | | 2006 | 0 | 11 | 11 | | 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 | 18 | 18 | | 2016 | 6 | 15 | 21 | | 2017 | 4 | 21 | 25 | | 2018 | 1 | 34 | 35 | | 2019 | 0 | 30 | 30 | | 2020 | 1 | 26 | 27 | | 2021 | 4 | 36 | 40 | | 2022 | 0 | 25 | 25 | | 2023 | 1 | 23 | 24 | | 2024 | 7 | 25 | 32 | | 2025 | 0 | 13 | 13 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Gestational Age" by people in Profiles.
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Turner MJ, Griffin R, Schuh M, Sanderson K, Slagle C, Menon S, Askenazi D, Gist K. Acute kidney injury and subsequent risk of late-onset infection among extremely low gestational age newborns. J Perinatol. 2025 Oct; 45(10):1450-1455.
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Klements E, Peterson RL, Anastasiadis WA, Dichiaro M, Connery AK. Risk factors and outcomes in preterm versus full-term infants with abusive head trauma: A retrospective comparative study. Child Abuse Negl. 2025 Nov; 169(Pt 2):107657.
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Sharma M, Brown AW, Chung S, Sexton KW, Schootman M, Mourani PM. Race Is an Incomplete Surrogate for Skin Pigmentation in Neonates, with Potential Relevance for Pulse Oximetry. J Pediatr. 2025 Nov; 286:114720.
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Nishihara Y, Zaniletti I, Zenge J, Weikel B, Parker S, Murthy K, Padula MA, Grover T. Epidemiology of bacterial and fungal infections among level IV neonatal units in North America. J Perinatol. 2025 Jul; 45(7):997-1004.
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van Westering-Kroon E, Hundscheid TM, Van Mechelen K, Barto? F, Abman SH, Villamor E. Sex differences in the risk of bronchopulmonary dysplasia and pulmonary hypertension: a Bayesian meta-analysis. Pediatr Res. 2025 Nov; 98(5):1687-1695.
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Maldonado LE, Adair LS, Dabelea DM, Farzan SF, Breton CV, Dunlop AL, MacKenzie DA, Bastain TM. Racial/ethnic-derived maternal diets predict birth outcomes better than a diet derived from a combined sample among Hispanic/Latina and non-Hispanic White pregnant individuals in the ECHO Cohort. Nutrition. 2025 10; 138:112832.
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Udoko AN, Passarella M, Formanowski B, Hannan KE, Bourque SL, Radack J, Lorch SA, Hwang SS. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Infant Mortality Rates Among Infants Born Preterm in the US Beyond 44 Weeks of Postmenstrual Age. J Pediatr. 2025 Aug; 283:114603.
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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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Weems MF, Ball MK, Zaniletti I, Habib S, Hamrick S, Grover TR, Keene S, Murthy K, Padula M, Philip R, Rao R, Sen S, Levy PT, Gowda SH. Management of the patent ductus arteriosus among infants born at 23 to 32 weeks' gestation between 2011 to 2022: a report from in the Children's Hospitals Neonatal Consortium. J Perinatol. 2025 Nov; 45(11):1540-1547.
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Vollbrecht TM, Goncalves LF, Bardo DME, Hart C, Boeth H, Barker AJ, Friesen RM, Luetkens JA. Factors influencing image quality in fetal cardiovascular magnetic resonance cine imaging using Doppler ultrasound gating: A multicenter study. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson. 2025; 27(1):101875.
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