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U.S. cesarean births rapidly rising.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
2002 JUL 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Almost one in four American women who gave birth last year had a cesarean section, the highest rate in 13 years - an increase fueled by repeat operations and also women who schedule C-sections for convenience.
C-sections had dropped in the early 1990s after an outcry that American women were getting too many. But in 1997, they started inching back up again. Last year brought the biggest jump yet, a 7% increase that "was certainly a surprise," said Joyce Martin, coauthor of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) birth report that was released June 6, 2002.
That made C-sections account for 24.4% of U.S. births last year, the CDC found. The nation's high was 25% in 1988.
The annual birth report also found:
* Teen-age birth rates continued their decade-long drop, hitting a record low of 45.9 births for every 1000 girls ages 15 to 19. That is 5% lower than the rate of 48.5 births per 1000 girls in 2000.
* 4.04 million babies were born in the United States last year, a slight drop from the previous year.
* The rate of low-birth-weight babies has remained unchanged since 1998, at 7.6%.
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