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Cesarean Section

Data from Curtin University of Technology Provide New Insights into Cesarean Section

Published in Women's Health Weekly, April 5th, 2012

2012 APR 5 -- In this recent report, researchers in Perth, Australia conducted a study "To determine whether common perinatal complications could explain variation in risk of cesarean among foreign-born and Australian-born women in Western Australia (WA). Complication prevalence was calculated using the linked records of 208 982 confinements to non-indigenous women in WA between 1998 and 2006."

"Logistic regression was used to estimate differences in risk of elective cesarean and emergency cesarean compared with vaginal delivery for foreign-born women from different regions. The most common complications in emergency cesareans were failure to progress...

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