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Abstract: The rate of cesarean section delivery in the United States rose from 4,5 per 100 deliveries in 1965 to 22.7 in 1985, and in 1985 an estimated 851.000 live births were cesarean deliveries, according to data flora the National Hospital Discharge Survey. This increase has been observed for all ages. and within all regions of the country. The rate for teenagers and mothers aged 20 to 29 was five to six times as high in 1985 as in 1965, trod four times as high for mothers aged 30 years and older. Repeat cesareans account for an increasing shine of ail cesarean deliveries: in 1985 one in three cesareans were repeals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

National Hospital Discharge Survey data indicate that the overall postpartum sterilization rate per 100 deliveries increased by 75 per cent from 4.0 in 1970 to 7.0 in 1975; by type of delivery, rates lose from 18.0 per 100 cesarean section deliveries and 3.2 for all other deliveries in 1970 to 19.0 and 5.0 respectively in 1975. The South had the highest postpartum sterilization rates overall. Deliveries to older mothers and cesarean section deliveries in hospitals with less than 100 beds were more often characterized by higher sterilization rates. (Am J Public Health 1981:71-1258-1261.) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the statistics of cesarean delivery in the U.S. in 1965 to 1986. During 1965, the rate of cesarean delivery was 4.5%, 22.7% in 1985, and has finally reached 24.1% in 1986. Such data is fairly uniform for women of all ages and marital statuses, and has been observed in hospitals of all sizes and types of ownership. The National Center for Health Statistics conducted the National Hospital Discharge Survey to monitor the annual trends of cesareans. Information came from about 200,000 medical records for inpatient discharges from a representative national sample of over 400 non-federal general and special short-stay hospitals. It also showed that almost one-fifth of teenage deliveries were cesareans.