{"id":1639,"date":"2013-07-08T11:45:35","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T14:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchspressroom.wordpress.com\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2013-07-08T11:45:35","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T14:45:35","slug":"cesarean-delivery-rates-starting-to-stabilize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2013\/07\/08\/1639\/","title":{"rendered":"Cesarean Delivery Rates Starting to Stabilize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db124_fig1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Cesarean delivery, by gestational age: United States, final 1996\u20132010 and preliminary 2011\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db124_fig1.png\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The total U.S. cesarean delivery rate reached a high of 32.9% of all births in 2009, rising 60% from the most recent low of 20.7 in 1996. \u00a0Since 2009, the U.S. cesarean delivery rate has not increased. NCHS&#8217;s <a title=\"Changes in Cesarean Delivery Rates by Gestational Age: United States, 1996\u20132011\" href=\"http:\/\/go.usa.gov\/bMXP\">report<\/a> explores cesarean delivery rates by gestational age for 1996\u20132011, focusing on 2009\u20132011. \u00a0Analysis is limited to singleton births; multiple births are nearly 2.5 times more likely to be delivered by cesarean.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Findings from the Report<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cesarean delivery rates decreased more than 5% among births at 38 weeks of gestation, but increased 4% among births at 39 weeks.<\/li>\n<li>Decreases in cesarean delivery rates for births at 38 weeks occurred for non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black, and Hispanic women, as well as for all maternal age groups.<\/li>\n<li>Increases in cesarean delivery rates for births at 39 weeks occurred among non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black, and Hispanic women, as well as for all maternal age groups.<\/li>\n<li>The cesarean delivery rate at 38 weeks decreased in 30 states; the cesarean delivery rate at 39 weeks increased in 23 states.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The total U.S. cesarean delivery rate reached a high of 32.9% of all births in 2009, rising 60% from the most recent low of 20.7 in 1996. \u00a0Since 2009, the U.S. cesarean delivery rate has not increased. NCHS&#8217;s report explores cesarean delivery rates by gestational age for 1996\u20132011, focusing on 2009\u20132011. \u00a0Analysis is limited to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53749,63698],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639"}],"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=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}