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.

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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
MeSH Number(s)	G07.345.500.325.235.968 G08.686.320
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

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Gestational Age".

Biological Sciences [G]
Physiological Phenomena [G07]
Growth and Development [G07.345]
Morphogenesis [G07.345.500]
Embryonic and Fetal Development [G07.345.500.325]
Fetal Development [G07.345.500.325.235]
Gestational Age [G07.345.500.325.235.968]
Reproductive and Urinary Physiological Phenomena [G08]
Reproductive Physiological Phenomena [G08.686]
Gestational Age [G08.686.320]

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Bar chart showing 163 publications over 26 distinct years, with a maximum of 16 publications in 2018

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1998	0	2	2
1999	0	1	1
2002	0	3	3
2003	0	3	3
2004	1	3	4
2005	0	6	6
2006	0	4	4
2007	0	3	3
2008	1	1	2
2009	0	3	3
2010	1	9	10
2011	0	3	3
2012	2	7	9
2013	2	4	6
2014	1	7	8
2015	0	10	10
2016	1	5	6
2017	2	5	7
2018	1	15	16
2019	1	7	8
2020	2	9	11
2021	1	9	10
2022	0	6	6
2023	0	4	4
2024	2	7	9
2025	1	8	9

Below are the most recent publications written about "Gestational Age" by people in Profiles.

Ngwa J, Andescavage NN, Basu S, Ottolini K, Kapse K, Murnick J, Limperopoulos C, du Plessis A, Govindan RB. Quantitative measures of autonomic cardiorespiratory maturation in preterm infants are associated with brain volumes at term age. Early Hum Dev. 2026 Jul; 218:106542.

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Hyland RM, Mat HD, Boly TJ, Thomas BJ, Stanford AH, Harmon HM, Bermick JR, Davila RC, Colaizy TT, Dagle JM, Klein JM, Greiner AL, Bell EF, McNamara PJ. Outcomes of Infants Born at 21 Weeks' Gestational Age. JAMA Netw Open. 2025 Dec 01; 8(12):e2548211.

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Jacobwitz M, Ngwa J, Kapse K, Limperopoulos C, Andescavage N. Charting normative reference values and Z-scores for MRI-derived in vivo placental growth. Pediatr Radiol. 2026 02; 56(2):384-392.

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Ayyash M, Wen T, Purisch S, Andrikopoulou M, Friedman A. Hypertensive Disorders at Delivery and Postpartum Cardiovascular Morbidity: A Retrospective Cohort Study. BJOG. 2026 Feb; 133(3):504-513.

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Patel P, Shen A, Perez C, Kennedy EM, Shankar K, Pearson KJ, Andres A, Everson TM. Association between placental epigenetic age acceleration and early postnatal growth patterns. Sci Rep. 2025 Aug 12; 15(1):29597.

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Carlo WA, Eichenwald EC, Carper BA, Bell EF, Keszler M, Patel RM, S?nchez PJ, Goldberg RN, D'Angio CT, Van Meurs KP, Hibbs AM, Ambalavanan N, Cosby SS, Newman NS, Vohr BR, Walsh MC, Das A, Ohls RK, Fuller J, Rysavy MA, Ghavam S, Brion LP, Puopolo KM, Moore R, Baack ML, Colaizy TT, Baserga M, Osman AF, Merhar SL, Poindexter BB, DeMauro SB, Kumar V, Cotten CM. Extended Caffeine for Apnea in Moderately Preterm Infants: The MoCHA Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA. 2025 06 24; 333(24):2154-2163.

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Basu SK, Ottolini KM, Kapse KJ, Ngwa J, Hui SCN, Andescavage N, Murnick J, du Plessis AJ, Limperopoulos C. Early parenteral lipid intake supports cerebellar neurometabolism at term-age in preterm infants. J Perinatol. 2025 Dec; 45(12):1735-1744.

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Naseh N, Bell EF, Sindelar R, Westas LH, ?gren J. Fluid Balance in Infants Born at 22-23 Weeks of Gestation: Trajectories and Associations with Outcomes. J Pediatr. 2025 09; 284:114661.

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Boghossian NS, Mack NA, Bell EF, Tan S, Stoll BJ, Rysavy MA, Ambalavanan N, Tyson JE, Das A, Hintz SR. Trends in sex differences in neurodevelopmental outcomes among extremely preterm infants. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed. 2025 Apr 17; 110(3):269-278.

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Chawla S, Wyckoff MH, Lakshminrusimha S, Rysavy MA, Patel RM, Chowdhury D, Das A, Greenberg RG, Natarajan G, Shankaran S, Bell EF, Ambalavanan N, Younge NE, Laptook AR, Pavlek LR, Backes CH, Van Meurs KP, Werner EF, Carlo WA. Short Duration of Antenatal Corticosteroid Exposure and Outcomes in Extremely Preterm Infants. JAMA Netw Open. 2025 02 03; 8(2):e2461312.

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