maternal age
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmaternalandage
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maternal
adjective
uk/məˈtɜː.nəl/us/məˈtɝː.nəl/
behaving or feeling in the way that a mother does towards her child, especially in a kind, ...
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age
noun
uk/eɪdʒ/us/eɪdʒ/
the period of time someone has been alive or something ...
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(Definition ofmaternalandagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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These analyses showed that sample losses were not associated withmaternalage, maternal educational qualifications, ethnicity, family socioeconomic status, or size.
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The averagematernalageat birth of the target child was 27.16 years.
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However, to provide sufficient cases for analysis ofmaternalageand seasonal variations would require a very extensive and prolonged survey which might prove impractical.
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This analysis suggested that losses to follow up were unrelated to the child's gender, ethnicity, family size, ormaternalage.
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Screening for trisomy 21 in twin pregnancies bymaternalageand fetal nuchal translucency thickness at 10-14 weeks of gestation.
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All groups show a significant relationship of age at last birth andmaternalage, suggesting a secular trend to earlier cessation of childbearing.
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Finally, negative emotionality was related to changes in internalizing problems over time after controlling formaternalageand child race.
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In addition, its effects were adjusted for the length of the preceding birth interval,maternalageat birth of the index child and birth order.
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Maternalageis 20-6 years; the eldest child is aged 7 years and the twins are 6 months old.
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The marked progression in the dependence of monozygotic, dizygotic and trizygotic rates onmaternalage underlines the importance of this factor in multiple birth studies.
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Some of these differences will be due to differences in thematernalagedistributions between the three locations.
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The study did not control for confounders such asmaternalageand parity.
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For example, the rate of congenital anomalies rises withmaternalage(presumably as a consequence of the eggs being older and therefore of "lower" quality).
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It is evident that incidence rates could vary simultaneously with both parity andmaternalagein the absence of such effects.
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The stillbirth rate rose with increasingmaternalagewhile postneonatal mortality decreased and neonatal mortality displayed an intermediate pattern.
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Birth order does not have a significant gross effect on infant mortality, but the net effects are significant because of the control onmaternalage.
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Furthermore, such events are thought to occur with equal frequency at anymaternalage, in contrast to aneuploidy, which is associated with advancedmaternalage.
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For the fourmaternalagegroups under 35 years the regression was not significantly different from zero.
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The first wasmaternalage, which is a proxy in this analysis for the duration of exposure of a child to the risk of dying.
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Similarly, when averagematernalageis quite high, further increase is also associated with higher risk.
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