 Premature Birth
"Premature Birth" 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.
CHILDBIRTH before 37 weeks of PREGNANCY (259 days from the first day of the mother's last menstrual period, or 245 days after FERTILIZATION).
| Descriptor ID |
D047928
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C13.703.420.491.500
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| Concept/Terms |
Premature Birth- Premature Birth
- Birth, Premature
- Births, Premature
- Premature Births
- Preterm Birth
- Birth, Preterm
- Births, Preterm
- Preterm Births
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| 2005 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2006 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2008 | 3 | 3 | 6 | | 2009 | 4 | 2 | 6 | | 2010 | 4 | 2 | 6 | | 2011 | 2 | 3 | 5 | | 2012 | 9 | 2 | 11 | | 2013 | 5 | 2 | 7 | | 2014 | 9 | 4 | 13 | | 2015 | 6 | 6 | 12 | | 2016 | 12 | 3 | 15 | | 2017 | 9 | 5 | 14 | | 2018 | 15 | 9 | 24 | | 2019 | 7 | 10 | 17 | | 2020 | 14 | 4 | 18 | | 2021 | 24 | 1 | 25 | | 2022 | 30 | 1 | 31 | | 2023 | 29 | 2 | 31 | | 2024 | 7 | 11 | 18 | | 2025 | 4 | 3 | 7 | | 2026 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Premature Birth" by people in Profiles.
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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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Singh R, Pierce CB, Makker K, Jacobson L, Jensen ET, Vaidya R, Gogcu S, Sanderson K, South AM, Thompson A, Perng W, Perrin EM, Cassidy-Bushrow AE, Dunlop AL, Dabelea D, Ferrara A, Hedderson MM, Zhu Y, Karagas M, Camargo CA, Hockett CW, Aris IM, McEvoy CT, Ganiban JM, Farzan S, Serrano-Gonzalez M, Carnell S, Geiger SD, Zhao Q, O'Shea TM. Association of Maternal Prepregnancy BMI With Offspring Cardiometabolic Outcomes in Childhood. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2025 Dec; 33(12):2330-2344.
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McElwee ER, Hatchell D, Alshareef M, Mallah K, Hall H, Robinson H, Eskandari R, Chang E, Sullivan S, Tomlinson S. Complement Modulation Mitigates Inflammation-Mediated Preterm Birth and Fetal Neural Inflammation. Cells. 2025 Jul 08; 14(14).
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Sayres LC, Simon NT, Lijewski VA, Sheeder J, Reeves SA. Progesterone Supplementation after Cerclage Does Not Improve the Preterm Birth Rate. Am J Perinatol. 2026 Feb; 43(3):291-299.
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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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Friedman A, Welch BM, Keil AP, Bloom MS, Braun JM, Buckley JP, Dabelea D, Factor-Litvak P, Meeker JD, Michels KB, Padmanabhan V, Starling AP, Weinberg CR, Aalborg J, Alshawabkeh AN, Barrett ES, Binder AM, Bradman A, Bush NR, Calafat AM, Cantonwine DE, Christenbury KE, Cordero JF, Engel SM, Eskenazi B, Harley KG, Hauser R, Herbstman JB, Holland N, James-Todd T, Jukic AMZ, Lanphear BP, McElrath TF, Messerlian C, Newman RB, Nguyen RHN, O'Brien KM, Rauh VA, Redmon JB, Rich DQ, Rosen EM, Sathyanarayana S, Schmidt RJ, Sparks AE, Swan SH, Wang C, Watkins DJ, Weinberger B, Wenzel AG, Wilcox AJ, Yolton K, Zhang Y, Zota AR, Ferguson KK. Periods of susceptibility for associations between phthalate exposure and preterm birth: Results from a pooled analysis of 16 US cohorts. Environ Int. 2025 Apr; 198:109392.
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Mayne G, DeWitt PE, Wen J, Schniedewind B, Dabelea D, Christians U, Hurt KJ. Adiponectin and Glucocorticoids Modulate Risk for Preterm Birth: The Healthy Start Study. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2025 Jan 21; 110(2):523-533.
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Dhital R, Baer RJ, Bandoli G, Chambers C. Cardiovascular Events During Pregnancy: Implications for Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes in Individuals With Autoimmune and Rheumatic Diseases. J Rheumatol. 2025 Jan 01; 52(1):93-99.
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Kuokkanen S, Seungdamrong A, Santoro N, Lieman H, Sun F, Wild R, Zhang H, Pal L. A relook at the relevance of thyroid stimulating hormone and thyroid autoimmunity for pregnancy outcomes: Analyses of randomized control trials data from Pregnancy in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and Assessment of Multiple Intrauterine Gestations from Ovarian Stimulation. Fertil Steril. 2025 May; 123(5):873-882.
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Ferrer L, Chambers C, Katheria A, Nguyen A, Bandoli G. Prenatal homelessness, food insecurity, and unemployment and adverse infant outcomes in a California cohort, 2007-2020. J Perinatol. 2025 Nov; 45(11):1528-1534.
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