maternal age

collocation in English

meanings of maternaland age

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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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These analyses showed that sample losses were not associated with maternalage, maternal educational qualifications, ethnicity, family socioeconomic status, or size.
The average maternalage at birth of the target child was 27.16 years.
However, to provide sufficient cases for analysis of maternalage and seasonal variations would require a very extensive and prolonged survey which might prove impractical.
This analysis suggested that losses to follow up were unrelated to the child's gender, ethnicity, family size, or maternalage.
Screening for trisomy 21 in twin pregnancies by maternalage and fetal nuchal translucency thickness at 10-14 weeks of gestation.
All groups show a significant relationship of age at last birth and maternalage, suggesting a secular trend to earlier cessation of childbearing.
Finally, negative emotionality was related to changes in internalizing problems over time after controlling for maternalage and child race.
In addition, its effects were adjusted for the length of the preceding birth interval, maternalage at birth of the index child and birth order.
Maternalage is 20-6 years; the eldest child is aged 7 years and the twins are 6 months old.
The marked progression in the dependence of monozygotic, dizygotic and trizygotic rates on maternal age underlines the importance of this factor in multiple birth studies.
Some of these differences will be due to differences in the maternalage distributions between the three locations.
The study did not control for confounders such as maternalage and parity.
For example, the rate of congenital anomalies rises with maternalage (presumably as a consequence of the eggs being older and therefore of "lower" quality).
It is evident that incidence rates could vary simultaneously with both parity and maternalage in the absence of such effects.
The stillbirth rate rose with increasing maternalage while postneonatal mortality decreased and neonatal mortality displayed an intermediate pattern.
Birth order does not have a significant gross effect on infant mortality, but the net effects are significant because of the control on maternalage.
Furthermore, such events are thought to occur with equal frequency at any maternalage, in contrast to aneuploidy, which is associated with advanced maternalage.
For the four maternalage groups under 35 years the regression was not significantly different from zero.
The first was maternalage, which is a proxy in this analysis for the duration of exposure of a child to the risk of dying.
Similarly, when average maternalage is quite high, further increase is also associated with higher risk.
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