{"id":6248,"date":"2021-12-03T10:45:23","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T15:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=6248"},"modified":"2021-12-03T10:45:23","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T15:45:23","slug":"quickstats-rate-of-cesarean-delivery-by-maternal-prepregnancy-body-mass-index-category-united-states-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2021\/12\/03\/6248\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Rate of Cesarean Delivery, by Maternal Prepregnancy Body Mass Index Category \u2014 United States, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/figures\/mm7048a7-F.gif?_=67740\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"338\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2020, 31.8% of live births were to women who had a cesarean delivery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rate of cesarean delivery was lowest for women who were underweight before pregnancy (20.7%); the rate rose steadily as BMI increased to obesity class III (52.3%). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One quarter (25.1%) of women of normal weight had a cesarean delivery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong>\u00a0National Vital Statistics System, natality file.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wonder.cdc.gov\/natality-expanded-current.html\">https:\/\/wonder.cdc.gov\/natality-expanded-current.html<\/a>; Defining adult overweight and obesity.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/obesity\/adult\/defining.html#:~:text=Class%203%3A%20BMI%20of%2040%20or%20higher.%20Class,body%20\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/obesity\/adult\/defining.html#:~:text=Class%203%3A%20BMI%20of%2040%20or%20higher.%20Class,body%20fatness%20or%20the%20health%20of%20an%20individual<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/mm7048a7.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/mm7048a7.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2020, 31.8% of live births were to women who had a cesarean delivery. The rate of cesarean delivery was lowest for women who were underweight before pregnancy (20.7%); the rate rose steadily as BMI increased to obesity class III (52.3%). One quarter (25.1%) of women of normal weight had a cesarean delivery. Sources:\u00a0National Vital<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47309,53749,15129,53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6248"}],"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=6248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}