Caesarean Delivery and Postpartum Maternal Mortality: A Population-Based Case Control Study in Brazil.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cesarean delivery rates continue to increase worldwide and reached 57% in Brazil in 2014. Although the safety of this surgery has improved in the last decades, this trend is a concern because it carries potential risks to women's health and may be a modifiable risk factor of maternal mortality. This paper aims to investigate the risk of postpartum maternal death directly associated with cesarean delivery in comparison to vaginal delivery in Brazil.

Methods

This was a population-based case-control study performed in eight Brazilian states. To control for indication bias, deaths due to antenatal morbidity were excluded. We included 73 cases of postpartum maternal deaths from 2009-2012. Controls were selected from the Birth in Brazil Study, a 2011 nationwide survey i

SUBMITTER: Esteves-Pereira AP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4830588 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature