Trends in Cesarean Rates for First Births and Repeat Cesarean Rates for Low-Risk Women: United States, 1990-2003
Trends in Cesarean Rates
for First Births and Repeat Cesarean Rates for Low-Risk Women: United
States, 1990-2003.
NVSR Volume 54, Number 4. 9 pp. (PHS)
2005-1120
Objective
Highlights Other findings include The widespread increase in the cesarean rate for low-risk women supports the idea that the indications for cesarean delivery have changed. Twenty-four percent of first births to low risk women in 2003 were cesarean births, an increase of one-third since 1996. The rate of repeat cesarean delivery increased by more than one fourth, from 70 to 89 percent during this time period. Therefore, in 2003, only 11 percent of low-risk women who had a previous cesarean went on to have a subsequent vaginal delivery.
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