C-sections A Critical Factor In Preterm Birth Increase
Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 21:07
in Health & Medicine
C-sections account for nearly all of the increase in US singleton preterm births. Between 1996 and 2004 there was an increase of nearly 60,000 singleton preterm births and 92 percent of those infants were delivered by a c-section. While singleton preterm births increased by about 10 percent during this time, the c-section rate for this group increased by 36 percent.
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