"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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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2004 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2007 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2008 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2017 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2018 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2022 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Gestational Age" by people in Profiles.
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Mother's Own Milk Provision During the First 12 Weeks of Life by Gestational Age. JAMA Netw Open. 2025 Mar 03; 8(3):e250024.
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Post-abortion Complications: A Narrative Review for Emergency Clinicians. West J Emerg Med. 2022 Oct 23; 23(6):919-925.
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Near fatal interstitial pregnancy. Am J Emerg Med. 2022 Jul; 57:235.e5-235.e8.
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Racial and socioeconomic disparities in breast milk feedings in US neonatal intensive care units. Pediatr Res. 2021 01; 89(2):344-352.
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Hypoxic modulation of fetal vascular MLCK abundance, localization, and function. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol. 2021 01 01; 320(1):R1-R18.
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Mother's Own Milk Biomarkers Predict Coming to Volume in Pump-Dependent Mothers of Preterm Infants. J Pediatr. 2021 01; 228:44-52.e3.
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Gram-negative Microbiota Blooms in Premature Twins Discordant for Parenteral Nutrition-associated Cholestasis. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2020 05; 70(5):640-644.
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Treatment of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) outside International Classification of ROP (ICROP) guidelines. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol. 2020 Jun; 258(6):1205-1210.
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Human Milk and Clinical Outcomes in Preterm Infants. Nestle Nutr Inst Workshop Ser. 2019; 90:163-174.
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Predictors of Prolonged Breast Milk Provision to Very Low Birth Weight Infants. J Pediatr. 2018 11; 202:23-30.e1.