"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 |
| 1996 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 1997 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1998 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2001 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2002 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2004 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2005 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2006 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 2009 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2010 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2011 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2012 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 2013 | 1 | 7 | 8 |
| 2014 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 2015 | 1 | 8 | 9 |
| 2016 | 1 | 10 | 11 |
| 2017 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 2018 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 2019 | 2 | 12 | 14 |
| 2020 | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| 2021 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2022 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Gestational Age" by people in Profiles.
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Selective early medical treatment of the patent ductus arteriosus in extremely low gestational age infants: a pilot randomised controlled trial protocol (SMART-PDA). BMJ Open. 2024 Jul 24; 14(7):e087998.
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Neonatal Leptin Levels Predict the Early Childhood Developmental Assessment Scores of Preterm Infants. Nutrients. 2023 Apr 19; 15(8).
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Postnatal Leptin Levels Correlate with Breast Milk Leptin Content in Infants Born before 32 Weeks Gestation. Nutrients. 2022 Dec 08; 14(24).
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Positive pressure ventilation at birth. Semin Perinatol. 2022 10; 46(6):151623.
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Risk calculator for advanced neonatal resuscitation. BMJ Paediatr Open. 2022 Mar; 6(1).
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Decreasing delivery room CPAP-associated pneumothorax at =35-week gestational age. J Perinatol. 2022 06; 42(6):761-768.
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Quantifying the additional maternal morbidity in women with preeclampsia with severe features in whom immediate delivery is recommended. Am J Obstet Gynecol MFM. 2022 05; 4(3):100565.
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Maternal plasma soluble neuropilin-1 is downregulated in fetal growth restriction complicated by abnormal umbilical artery Doppler: a pilot study. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol. 2021 Nov; 58(5):716-721.
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Heightened activation of embryonic megakaryocytes causes aneurysms in the developing brain of mice lacking podoplanin. Blood. 2021 05 20; 137(20):2756-2769.
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Comparing fetal biometric growth velocity versus estimated fetal weight for prediction of neonatal small for gestational age. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2022 Oct; 35(20):3931-3936.