Caesarean section and severe upper and lower respiratory tract infections during infancy: Evidence from two UK cohorts.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Several studies have reported that birth by caesarean section is associated with increased risk of lower respiratory tract infections in the child, but it is unclear whether this applies to any caesarean section or specifically to planned caesareans. Furthermore, although infections of the upper respiratory tract are very common during childhood, there is a scarcity of studies examining whether caesarean is also a risk factor for this site of infection.

Methods

We obtained data from two UK cohorts: the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) and linked administrative datasets of the population of Wales through the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) databank. The study focused on term-born singleton infants and included 15,580 infants born 2000-2002 (MCS) and 392,1

SUBMITTER: Alterman N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7886211 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature