"Gestational Age" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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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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| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2023 | 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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Maternal singing sustains preterm hospitalized newborns' autonomic nervous system maturation: an RCT. Pediatr Res. 2024 Mar; 95(4):1110-1116.
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Correlates of Early Prenatal Care Access among U.S. Women: Data from the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS). Matern Child Health J. 2022 Feb; 26(2):328-341.
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Effects of Early Vocal Contact in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Study Protocol for a Multi-Centre, Randomised Clinical Trial. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 04 08; 18(8).
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Individualized growth assessment: conceptual framework and practical implementation for the evaluation of fetal growth and neonatal growth outcome. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2018 02; 218(2S):S656-S678.
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Factors associated with strabismus in spina bifida myelomeningocele. J Pediatr Ophthalmol Strabismus. 2012 Sep-Oct; 49(5):284-9.
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Size at birth and lipoprotein concentrations in adulthood: two prospective studies in Latin American cities. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2010 Oct; 64(10):855-9.