Neighborhood deprivation increases the risk of Post-induction cesarean delivery.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The purpose of this study was to measure the association between neighborhood deprivation and cesarean delivery following labor induction among people delivering at term (≥37 weeks of gestation).

Materials and methods

We conducted a retrospective cohort study of people ≥37 weeks of gestation, with a live, singleton gestation, who underwent labor induction from 2010 to 2017 at Penn Medicine. We excluded people with a prior cesarean delivery and those with missing geocoding information. Our primary exposure was a nationally validated Area Deprivation Index with scores ranging from 1 to 100 (least to most deprived). We used a generalized linear mixed model to calculate the odds of postinduction cesarean delivery among people in 4 equally-spaced levels of neighborhood

SUBMITTER: Meeker JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8757307 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature