BACKGROUND Caesarean section rates are increasing. It is not clear whether a familial predisposition to caesarean section exists. METHODS Births registered in the Medical Birth Registry of Norway during 1967-2005 were linked to construct 440,236 grandmother-parent units and 275,001 same sex full sibling units. Log-binomial regression models were used to explore associations. RESULTS A mothe...

BACKGROUND The study was conducted to determine the rate and clinical indications for emergency and elective caesarean section. METHODS This was a cross-sectional descriptive study conducted from December 2010 to January 2011 in Gynaecology unit-A of Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar. Consecutive patients who gave birth in the hospital during the study period were included in the study. There we...

OBJECTIVE To identify factors contributing to the rapid rise of caesarean section in Shanghai through the prospective observation of changes in the preferred mode of delivery in pregnancy among primiparous Chinese women. DESIGN Prospective study. SETTING Two general hospitals in Shanghai. PARTICIPANTS A cohort of 832 low-risk primiparous women participated in the investigation from 2010-2...

OBJECTIVE To determine the trend and indications for the use of caesarean delivery in our environment. METHOD A retrospective review of the caesarean sections performed at University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital from January 2000 to December 2005 inclusive. RESULTS During the study period, there were 10,097 deliveries and 1192 caesarean sections giving a caesarean section rate of 11.8%. T...

INTRODUCTION Caesarean section is thought to be a risk factor for childhood asthma, but this association may be caused by confounding from, for instance, familial factors. To address this problem, we used twin pairs to assess the risk of childhood asthma after emergency caesarean section. METHODS The study was a register-based nation-wide matched cohort study using twin pairs to minimise resi...

There is great concern about the increasing rise in the rate of caesarean section in both developed and developing countries. This study was to ascertain the prevalence and compare outcomes of elective and emergency caesarean sections among women who deliver at the University of Cape Coast Hospital, Ghana. This retrospective study reviewed records of 645 women who delivered through caesarean se...

BACKGROUND Several maternity units in the developing world lack facilities for caesarean section and often have to transfer patients in extremis. This case controlled study aimed to appraise predictive factors for caesarean section. METHODS One hundred and fifty two consecutive women with singleton pregnancies who had caesarean section were studied. The next parturient with normal delivery se...

There has been widespread concern about rising caesarean section rates in the world. Various reviews have documented the wide variation worldwide in caesarean rates. For instance, in the mid-to-late 1980s the caesarean rate was 32% in Brazilian states, 25% in the United States, 5% in Jamaica and 7% in Czechoslovakia!. It is believed that the rising trend is due to the general trend towards lowe...

AIMS Regional and interinstitutional variations have been recognized in the increasing incidence of caesarean section. Modes of birth after previous caesarean section vary widely, ranging from elective repeat caesarean section (ERCS) and unplanned repeat caesarean section (URCS) after trial of labour to vaginal birth after caesarean section (VBAC). This study describes interinstitutional variat...