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Article: Requests for cesareans increase with women's age.(UPDATE)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- International Family Planning Perspectives
- Article date:
- June 1, 2005
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In Taiwan, older women are more likely than younger women to request a delivery by cesarean section, according to a population-based study of more than 900,000 singleton births between 1997 and 2001. (1) In an analysis of data from the National Health Insurance Research Database, the proportion of singleton births delivered by cesarean section due to maternal request increased from 2.0% to 3.5% during that period. In separate analyses by maternal age-group, the proportion of requested cesarean deliveries each year increased with age. In a multivariate analysis controlling for health care facility characteristics, the odds of having requested a cesarean delivery were ...