"Maternal 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 mother in PREGNANCY.
| Descriptor ID |
D008423
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G08.686.560 N05.715.350.075.550 N06.850.490.250.550
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| Concept/Terms |
Maternal Age- Maternal Age
- Age, Maternal
- Ages, Maternal
- Maternal Ages
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Maternal Age".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Maternal Age".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Maternal Age" by people in this website by year, and whether "Maternal Age" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1995 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 1996 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 1997 | 3 | 6 | 9 |
| 1998 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 1999 | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| 2000 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2001 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2002 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2003 | 1 | 7 | 8 |
| 2004 | 1 | 12 | 13 |
| 2005 | 1 | 13 | 14 |
| 2006 | 0 | 11 | 11 |
| 2007 | 3 | 10 | 13 |
| 2008 | 2 | 13 | 15 |
| 2009 | 1 | 9 | 10 |
| 2010 | 1 | 12 | 13 |
| 2011 | 4 | 6 | 10 |
| 2012 | 4 | 9 | 13 |
| 2013 | 5 | 13 | 18 |
| 2014 | 3 | 16 | 19 |
| 2015 | 3 | 16 | 19 |
| 2016 | 6 | 20 | 26 |
| 2017 | 8 | 16 | 24 |
| 2018 | 3 | 18 | 21 |
| 2019 | 4 | 9 | 13 |
| 2020 | 3 | 19 | 22 |
| 2021 | 3 | 11 | 14 |
| 2022 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2023 | 1 | 9 | 10 |
| 2024 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Below are the most recent publications written about "Maternal Age" by people in Profiles.
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Pre-conception clinical risk factors differ between spontaneous and indicated preterm birth in a densely phenotyped EHR cohort. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2025 Feb 12; 25(1):149.
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Maternal age is related to offspring DNA methylation: A meta-analysis of results from the PACE consortium. Aging Cell. 2024 Aug; 23(8):e14194.
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Risk Factors for Thyroid Dysfunction in Pregnancy: An Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis. Thyroid. 2024 May; 34(5):646-658.
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Prenatal cannabis use disorder and gastroschisis in California, 2007-19. Int J Epidemiol. 2024 Feb 14; 53(2).
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Declining birth rates, increasing maternal age and neonatal intensive care unit admissions. J Perinatol. 2024 02; 44(2):203-208.
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Risk of Preterm Delivery in Very Advanced Maternal Age Parturients Utilizing In Vitro Fertilization. Am J Perinatol. 2024 08; 41(11):1532-1537.
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Outcomes for advanced aged (35 and older) versus younger aged pregnant trauma patients: A multicenter study. Am J Surg. 2023 12; 226(6):798-802.
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Maternal Epidemiology of Brachial Plexus Birth Injuries in California: 1996 to 2012. Am J Perinatol. 2024 05; 41(S 01):e2106-e2114.
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Disparities in Mortality Trends for Infants of Teenagers: 1996 to 2019. Pediatrics. 2023 05 01; 151(5).
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Influence of maternal age on birth and infant outcomes at 6 months: a cohort study with quantitative bias analysis. Int J Epidemiol. 2023 04 19; 52(2):414-425.