Indications for primary cesarean delivery relative to body mass index.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Obesity is a known risk factor for cesarean delivery. Limited data are available regarding the reasons for the increased rate of primary cesarean in obese women. It is important to identify the factors leading to an increased risk of cesarean to identify opportunities to reduce the primary cesarean rate.

Objective

We evaluated indications for primary cesarean across body mass index (kg/m(2)) classes to identify the factors contributing to the increased rate of cesarean among obese women.

Study design

In the Consortium of Safe Labor study from 2002 through 2008, we calculated indications for primary cesarean including failure to progress or cephalopelvic disproportion, nonreassuring fetal heart tracing, malpresentation, elective, hypertensive disease, multip

SUBMITTER: Kawakita T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5045770 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature