{"id":3117,"date":"2016-04-28T15:12:55","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T18:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=3117"},"modified":"2016-04-28T15:12:55","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T18:12:55","slug":"declines-in-triplet-and-higher-order-multiple-births-in-the-united-states-1998-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2016\/04\/28\/3117\/","title":{"rendered":"Declines in Triplet and Higher-order Multiple Births in the United States, 1998\u20132014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db243.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/images\/databriefs\/201-250\/db243_fig1.png\" width=\"462\" height=\"358\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The incidence of triplet and higher-order multiple births rose fourfold during the 1980s and 1990s. This rise was associated with older maternal age and the increased use of fertility-enhancing therapies and was of concern because of the greater risk of adverse outcome of triplet and higher-order births compared with singletons and the added toll of these pregnancies on maternal health.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1998, however, this trend has edged downward.<\/p>\n<p>An NCHS <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db243.pdf\">report<\/a> explores the recent downturn in triplet and higher-order births by maternal demographic factors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Findings:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The triplet and higher-order birth rate declined 41% from 1998 to 2014, or from about 1 in every 515 births in 1998 to one in every 880 births in 2014.<\/li>\n<li>Triplet and higher-order birth rates were down by about 50% or more for women aged 25 and over. Rates were essentially unchanged for women under 25.<\/li>\n<li>The largest declines in triplet and higher-order birth rates by race and Hispanic origin for 1998\u20132014 were for non-Hispanic white women, down 46% compared with a 15% decline for Hispanic women, and essentially no change for non-Hispanic black women.<\/li>\n<li>Triplet and higher-order birth rates were down from 1998\u20132000 to 2012\u20132014 in 42 states; declines of more than 50% were observed in 7 states.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The incidence of triplet and higher-order multiple births rose fourfold during the 1980s and 1990s. This rise was associated with older maternal age and the increased use of fertility-enhancing therapies and was of concern because of the greater risk of adverse outcome of triplet and higher-order births compared with singletons and the added toll of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47309,63681],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117"}],"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=3117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}