Gestational Age

Among pregnancies in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, those with small for gestational age infants were significantly more likely to demonstrate increased perivillous fibrin deposition in the placenta, according to data.

The prevalence of infants born small for gestational age in China fell by more than 27% from 2012 to 2020, a change attributed to several improved maternal factors including access to care, researchers reported.

A low-cost, battery-powered ultrasonography probe with integrated AI for image interpretation reliably measured gestational age compared with standard ultrasound, providing a possible option for low-resource settings, diagnostic data show.

From 2014 to 2022, preterm and early-term birth rates rose, and late-term and post-term births declined, with similar rates across maternal age, race and ethnicity groups, gestational age a strong predictor of morbidity and early mortality, CDC researchers reported.

Metformin may lengthen the time until insulin initiation, lower fasting glucose and improve neonatal outcomes for pregnant women with gestational diabetes, according to data from a randomized trial.

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Pregnancies in the United States tended to be shorter, and deliveries occurred at different times of the day compared with those in England and the Netherlands, data published in PLOS ONE showed.

Artificial intelligence models trained to analyze ultrasonograms may help sonographers more accurately estimate gestational age, according to data published in JAMA Network Open.

Gestational exposure to phthalates was linked to lower FVC and FEV1 during childhood, particularly early childhood, with four phthalates demonstrating a significant association, concluded recent results.

Among extremely low gestational age neonates, gestational age, birthweight z-score and prenatal steroids correlated with an increased risk for chronic kidney disease.