Premature Birth

"Premature Birth" 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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CHILDBIRTH before 37 weeks of PREGNANCY (259 days from the first day of the mother's last menstrual period, or 245 days after FERTILIZATION).


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Premature Birth" by people in this website by year, and whether "Premature Birth" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Premature Birth" by people in Profiles.
  1. Obstetric Characteristics and Outcomes of Gestational Carrier Pregnancies: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Jul 01; 7(7):e2422634.
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  2. Black-white differences in chronic stress exposures to predict preterm birth: interpretable, race/ethnicity-specific machine learning model. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2024 Jun 22; 24(1):438.
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  3. Intrauterine inflammation and postnatal intravenous dopamine alter the neurovascular unit in preterm newborn lambs. J Neuroinflammation. 2024 May 28; 21(1):142.
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  4. Water Fluoridation and Birth Outcomes in California. Environ Health Perspect. 2024 May; 132(5):57004.
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  5. Comparison of safety and effectiveness of antiretroviral therapy regimens among pregnant women living with HIV at preconception or during pregnancy: a systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomized trials. BMC Infect Dis. 2024 Apr 19; 24(1):417.
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  6. SARS-CoV-2 infection by trimester of pregnancy and adverse perinatal outcomes: a Mexican retrospective cohort study. BMJ Open. 2024 Apr 11; 14(4):e075928.
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  7. Progesterone therapy for prevention of recurrent spontaneous preterm birth in a minority patient population: a retrospective study. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2024 Apr 08; 24(1):252.
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  8. Cortical growth from infancy to adolescence in preterm and term-born children. Brain. 2024 Apr 04; 147(4):1526-1538.
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  9. Subventricular zone stem cell niche injury is associated with intestinal perforation in preterm infants and predicts future motor impairment. Cell Stem Cell. 2024 Apr 04; 31(4):467-483.e6.
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  10. Inflammatory Dietary Potential Is Associated with Vitamin Depletion and Gut Microbial Dysbiosis in Early Pregnancy. Nutrients. 2024 Mar 24; 16(7).
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