Association of Elective and Emergency Cesarean Delivery With Early Childhood Overweight at 12 Months of Age.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Global cesarean delivery (CD) rates have more than doubled over the past 2 decades, with an increasing contribution from elective CDs. Cesarean delivery has been linked to early childhood overweight and obesity, but limited studies have examined elective and emergency CDs separately.

Objective

To investigate whether elective or emergency CD was associated with risk of early childhood overweight.

Design, setting, and participants

Data were drawn from the Growing Up in Singapore Toward Healthy Outcomes (GUSTO) study, an ongoing prospective mother-child birth cohort study. Participants were pregnant women aged 18 years or older with homogeneous parental ethnic background in their first trimester recruited between June 2009 and September 2010 (n = 1237) at 2 ma

SUBMITTER: Cai M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6324378 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature