{"id":1008,"date":"2010-03-24T08:58:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T12:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchspressroom.wordpress.com\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2010-03-24T08:58:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T12:58:21","slug":"cesarean-delivery-more-popular-than-ever-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2010\/03\/24\/1008\/","title":{"rendered":"Cesarean delivery &#8211; more popular than ever before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0report released yesterday\u00a0from the National Center for Health Statistics showed that the cesarean rate rose by 53% from 1996 to 2007, reaching 32%, the highest rate ever reported in the United States.\u00a0The 1.4 million cesarean births in 2007 represented\u00a0about one-third of all births in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Although clear clinical indications often exist\u00a0for a cesarean delivery, the short- and long-term benefits and risks for both mother and infant have been the subject of intense debate for over 25 years. Despite this, the rate continues to rise for women in all racial and ethnic groups, as well as for women of every age, as shown below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nchspressroom.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/cesarean2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1014\" title=\"Cesarean delivery rates, by age of mother: United States, 1996, 2000, and 2007\" src=\"http:\/\/nchspressroom.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/cesarean2.gif\" alt=\"Rates of cesarean delivery typically rise with increasing maternal age. As in 1996 and 2000, the rate for mothers aged 40\u201354 years in 2007 was more than twice the rate for mothers under age 20 (48% and 23%, respectively).\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" \/><\/a>For more from this recent release, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db35.pdf\">http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db35.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0report released yesterday\u00a0from the National Center for Health Statistics showed that the cesarean rate rose by 53% from 1996 to 2007, reaching 32%, the highest rate ever reported in the United States.\u00a0The 1.4 million cesarean births in 2007 represented\u00a0about one-third of all births in the United States. Although clear clinical indications often exist\u00a0for a cesarean<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47309,53749,62268,63728,53747,63768,53751],"tags":[63877,63881,63895,63982],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}