Pregnancy

"Pregnancy" 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 status during which female mammals carry their developing young (EMBRYOS or FETUSES) in utero before birth, beginning from FERTILIZATION to BIRTH.

Descriptor ID	D011247
MeSH Number(s)	G08.686.784.769
Concept/Terms	Pregnancy Pregnancy Pregnancies Gestation

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Biological Sciences [G]
Reproductive and Urinary Physiological Phenomena [G08]
Reproductive Physiological Phenomena [G08.686]
Reproduction [G08.686.784]
Pregnancy [G08.686.784.769]

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publications

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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Pregnancy" by people in this website by year, and whether "Pregnancy" was a major or minor topic of these publications.

Bar chart showing 1394 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 87 publications in 2021

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1996	0	3	3
1997	1	3	4
1998	0	5	5
1999	0	9	9
2000	0	4	4
2001	0	11	11
2002	0	30	30
2003	0	38	38
2004	2	39	41
2005	1	42	43
2006	1	32	33
2007	1	48	49
2008	1	36	37
2009	0	44	44
2010	1	52	53
2011	1	66	67
2012	0	51	51
2013	1	59	60
2014	0	59	59
2015	0	55	55
2016	2	65	67
2017	1	62	63
2018	1	65	66
2019	0	55	55
2020	0	70	70
2021	0	87	87
2022	0	84	84
2023	0	79	79
2024	0	77	77
2025	0	49	49
2026	0	1	1

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

Hui SCN, Elsaid NMH, Ngwa JS, Kapse K, Limperopoulos C, Andescavage N. Measures of Brain Metabolism and Diffusion in Neonates of Mothers with Diabetes. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2026 Mar 04; 47(3):768-776.

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Madlala HP, Jao J, Roussos G, Mendham AE, Myer L, Abrams E, Geffen H, Mukonda E, Modibedi R, Odayar J, Matyesini S, Dugas LR, Goedecke JH, Catalano P, McComsey GA, Gerschenson M. Gluteal Adipose Tissue Mitochondrial Respiration and Insulin Sensitivity in Pregnant South African Women Living With HIV on Tenofovir-Lamivudine-Dolutegravir. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2025 Dec 15; 100(5):462-470.

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Moxon SG, Wharton-Smith A, Sharma S, Aluvaala J, Campbell OMR, Gupta G, Lobis S, Warthin C, Penn-Kekana L, Freedman LP. A Delphi process to build consensus on revised Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (EmONC) signal functions and levels of care. PLoS One. 2025; 20(9):e0331684.

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Saleem A, Volz A, Mondal T, Loffredo CA, Trnovec T, Murinova LP, Conka K, Drobna B, Ghosh S. Exploring the associations between prenatal PCB exposures and gene expression: Observations from a study of newborn Slovak infants. Ecotoxicol Environ Saf. 2025 Oct 01; 304:119059.

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Chern I, Choi SY, Ahn HJ, Mau M, Yamasato K. Racial/Ethnic Differences in Gestational Diabetes and Its Association with Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes among Women in Hawai'i. Matern Child Health J. 2025 Dec; 29(12):1679-1684.

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Perez C, Campbell K, Boyd Barr D, Shankar K, Sims C, Pearson KJ, Andres A, Everson TM. Sex-dependent relationships between PFAS and placental transcriptomics identified by weighted gene co-expression analysis. Environ Res. 2025 Dec 01; 286(Pt 1):122745.

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Lebov JF, Nason M, Stolka KB, Ximenes R, Mussi-Pinhata MM, Moye J, Zorrilla CD, Velez Vega CM, Cordero JF, Scalabrin DMF, Ko AI, Moreira MEL, Galv?o LA, Britt W, Marques ETA, Balmaseda A, Harris E, Arias JF, Schultz-Cherry S, Garces AL, Krebs NF, Ochoa TJ, Ugarte-Gil CA, Fogleman E, Gabriel E, Welton M, Irizarry CM, de Moura Negrini SB, Coutinho CM, de Barros Miranda-Filho D, Montarroyos UR, Cordeiro MT, Gajewski A, Osorio JE, Figueroa L. Zika in Infants and Pregnancy (ZIP) study: results from a prospective international cohort study of prenatal Zika virus infection and adverse fetal and infant outcomes. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2025 Aug 30; 25(1):903.

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Mittal P, Raina N, Gaikwad H, Suneja A, Nagpal K, Mandal A, Gupta M. Epidemiology of stillbirths in india: findings of a multisite hospital-based sentinel surveillance from 2016 to 2020 in North India. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2025 Aug 28; 25(1):895.

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Orbegozo J, Palermo PM, Watts DM. Serological Evidence of Flavivirus Infection Among Mothers of Newborns in El Paso, Texas. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis. 2025 Oct; 25(10):607-615.

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Oliveira EF, Santos-Pinto CDB, Venancio FA, Quili?o ME, Gabeira SCO, Carvalho AT, Leite SHDS, Lima SMB, Alves NDS, Moura LDC, Schwarcz WD, Azevedo AS, Demarchi LHF, Zardin MCSU, Lichs GGC, Taira DL, Souza Fernandes W, Alves NO, Arrua AEC, Nascimento AID, Mareto LK, Azevedo MV, Maciel CG, Medeiros MJ, Vasconcelos Z, Cunha RVD, Nielsen-Saines K. Evaluating potential associations between prior maternal yellow fever vaccination and protection against infant adverse outcomes following Zika virus antenatal exposure. Int J Epidemiol. 2025 Aug 18; 54(5).

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