Metadata field: birth_gestational_age_weeks
Studies:
- Shaffer_2023_infants_vaccination (701/736 samples)
- Schwartz_2023_infant (449 samples)
- Gasparrini_2019_infant (429 samples)
- Gibson_2016_preterm (403 samples)
- 17 other studies (2396 samples)
Scope: human
Type: number
Example values:
- 40
- 39.86
- 39.8571428571
Description: The subject's gestational age at birth (i.e. the time from the first day of the mother's last menstrual period to birth).
The notation "39 + 6 days" is converted into a floating-point number when adding the data to the database.
This field is used to automatically assign the birth_term_status. Note that a few studies contain a gestational_age_weeks that
represents the subject's actual age at the time of sampling.