gravidity
- noun
- /ˈɡrævɪdəti/
- Specialized
:
gravidez
- In light of the well-known association between high fertility and poor health status, we examined gravidity (the number of times a woman has been pregnant) as a gender-specific risk factor for walking difficulty.
- high gravidity
- gravidity and walking difficulties
Examples
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Mean gravidity in our sample was 5.9 pregnancies per woman.
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Baseline data included maternal age, gravidity, parity, estimated gestational age, and Bishop score prior to catheter insertion and after catheter expulsion.
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We have provided initial evidence that gravidity influences walking difficulty among older women.
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Our results suggest that the high gravidity Mexican American women experience is also a contributing factor to walking difficulty in later life.
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Using a panel of established risk factors, we evaluated the contribution of high gravidity to walking difficulty among elderly women.
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Gravidity is a risk factor for ambulatory limitation in old age.
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Our study suggests that public health and aging practitioners should consider including gravidity in epidemiological models of ambulatory limitation.
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There were no differences between the women at baseline in age, height, weight, gravidity, parity, and gestational stage (Table 1).
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Ordinal logistic regression models show that gravidity predicts level of performance in both mobility tasks and that higher gravidity is associated with worse performance, even after adjustment for both age and chronic disease.
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Gravidity is defined as the total number of times a woman has been pregnant.
Synonyms
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The time when a person carries a growing baby before birth
Pregnancy in a person or animal when the body carries young
The state of being pregnant and carrying a baby or babies
How Many Pregnancies
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Gravidity comes from the old Latin word gravidus, which means 'heavy' and was used for pregnancy because a woman was thought to be 'heavy with child'. The same root appears in gravity, so gravidity now means 'being pregnant' or the number of times a woman has been pregnant.