Live Birth

"Live 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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The event that a FETUS is born alive with heartbeats or RESPIRATION regardless of GESTATIONAL AGE. Such liveborn is called a newborn infant (INFANT, NEWBORN).

Descriptor ID	D050498
MeSH Number(s)	G08.686.784.769.530.249
Concept/Terms	Live Birth Live Birth Live Births

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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]
Pregnancy Outcome [G08.686.784.769.530]
Live Birth [G08.686.784.769.530.249]

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

Bar chart showing 18 publications over 11 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2015 and 2020

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2006	1	0	1
2008	0	1	1
2013	1	1	2
2015	0	3	3
2016	1	0	1
2017	0	1	1
2019	0	2	2
2020	0	3	3
2021	0	1	1
2022	2	0	2
2024	1	0	1

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

Shinde M, Cosgrove A, Lyons JG, Kempner ME, Mosley J, Cole D, Hoffman E, Messenger-Jones E, Hern?ndez-Mu?oz JJ, Stojanovic D, Wong BHW, Zhao Y, Sahin L, Andrade SE, Toh S, Hua W. Characteristics and Medication Use Patterns of Pregnancies With COVID-19 Ending in Live-Birth in the Sentinel System. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2025 Apr; 34(4):e70121.

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Zhou B, Kwan B, Desai MJ, Nalawade V, Henk J, Viravalli N, Murphy JD, Nathan PC, Ruddy KJ, Shliakhtsitsava K, Su HI, Whitcomb BW. Association of platinum-based chemotherapy with live birth and infertility in female survivors of adolescent and young adult cancer. Fertil Steril. 2024 Jun; 121(6):1020-1030.

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Freeman JR, Whitcomb BW, Bertone-Johnson ER, Balzer LB, O'Brien LM, Dunietz GL, Purdue-Smithe AC, Kim K, Silver RM, Schisterman EF, Mumford SL. Preconception sleep duration, sleep timing, and shift work in association with fecundability and live birth among women with a history of pregnancy loss. Fertil Steril. 2023 02; 119(2):252-263.

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Taylor LG, Bird ST, Stojanovic D, Toh S, Maro JC, Fazio-Eynullayeva E, Petrone AB, Rajbhandari R, Andrade SE, Haynes K, McMahill-Walraven CN, Shinde M, Lyons JG. Utility of fertility procedures and prenatal tests to estimate gestational age for live-births and stillbirths in electronic health plan databases. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2022 05; 31(5):534-545.

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Sacha CR, Mortimer RM, James K, Harris AL, Yeh J, Toth TL, Souter I, Roberts DJ. Placental pathology of term singleton live births conceived with fresh embryo transfer compared with those conceived without assisted reproductive technology. Fertil Steril. 2022 04; 117(4):758-768.

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Mortimer R, James K, Bormann CL, Harris AL, Yeh J, Toth TL, Souter I, Roberts DJ, Sacha CR. Male factor infertility and placental pathology in singleton live births conceived with in vitro fertilization. J Assist Reprod Genet. 2021 Dec; 38(12):3223-3232.

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Whelan A, Burks C, Stephenson MD. Pregnancy Outcomes in Women With a History of Recurrent Early Pregnancy Loss and a Septate Uterus, With and Without Hysteroscopic Metroplasty. Obstet Gynecol. 2020 08; 136(2):417-419.

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Johnson KM, Hacker MR, Thornton K, Young BC, Modest AM. Association between in?vitro fertilization and ischemic placental disease by gestational age. Fertil Steril. 2020 09; 114(3):579-586.

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Harris AL, Sacha CR, Basnet KM, James KE, Freret TS, Kaimal AJ, Yeh J, Souter I, Roberts DJ, Toth TL. Vanishing Twins Conceived Through Fresh In Vitro Fertilization: Obstetric Outcomes and Placental Pathology. Obstet Gynecol. 2020 06; 135(6):1426-1433.

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Mott K, Reichman ME, Toh S, Kieswetter C, Haffenreffer K, Andrade SE. Use of Antidiabetic drugs during pregnancy among U.S. women with Livebirth deliveries in the Mini-Sentinel system. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2019 Nov 27; 19(1):441.

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