TY - JOUR
T1 - Maternal age and the likelihood of a maternal request for cesarean delivery
T2 - A 5-year population-based study
AU - Lin, Herng Ching
AU - Xirasagar, Sudha
PY - 2005/3
Y1 - 2005/3
N2 - Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine associations between maternal age and maternal request cesarean deliveries. Study design: Five-year population-based data from Taiwan (1997-2001) that covered 904,657 singleton deliveries without a clinical indication for cesarean delivery that were judged by the attending physician were subjected to multiple logistic regression, year-wise, to examine the association of maternal age with request cesarean delivery, adjusted for health care institutional characteristics. Results: Request cesarean delivery rates steadily increased over the study period within each age group, disproportionately so among the 34+ age group. Women aged <25 years were less likely than women aged 25 to 34 years (reference group) to request a cesarean delivery (odds ratio range, 0.67-0.88) and women aged 34+ were more likely than the reference group to have a request cesarean delivery (odds ratio range, 1.96-2.01), adjusted for health care institutional characteristics. Conclusion: Population-based data confirms the expectancy that request cesarean delivery propensity increases with maternal age.
AB - Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine associations between maternal age and maternal request cesarean deliveries. Study design: Five-year population-based data from Taiwan (1997-2001) that covered 904,657 singleton deliveries without a clinical indication for cesarean delivery that were judged by the attending physician were subjected to multiple logistic regression, year-wise, to examine the association of maternal age with request cesarean delivery, adjusted for health care institutional characteristics. Results: Request cesarean delivery rates steadily increased over the study period within each age group, disproportionately so among the 34+ age group. Women aged <25 years were less likely than women aged 25 to 34 years (reference group) to request a cesarean delivery (odds ratio range, 0.67-0.88) and women aged 34+ were more likely than the reference group to have a request cesarean delivery (odds ratio range, 1.96-2.01), adjusted for health care institutional characteristics. Conclusion: Population-based data confirms the expectancy that request cesarean delivery propensity increases with maternal age.
KW - Cesarean delivery
KW - Maternal age
KW - Maternal request
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ajog.2004.09.133
DO - 10.1016/j.ajog.2004.09.133
M3 - Article
C2 - 15746681
AN - SCOPUS:14644444540
SN - 0002-9378
VL - 192
SP - 848
EP - 855
JO - American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
JF - American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
IS - 3
ER -