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Associations between cesarean delivery and child mortality: A national record linkage longitudinal study of 17.8 million births in Brazil.

Enny Santos da PaixãoChristian BottomleyJúlia Moreira PescariniKerry L M WongLuciana L CardimRita de Cássia Ribeiro SilvaElizabeth Bailey BrickleyLaura C RodriguesFlavia Jôse Oliveira AlvesMaria do Carmo LealMaria da Conceicao N CostaMaria da Gloria TeixeiraMaria Yury Travassos IchiharaLiam SmeethMaurício Lima BarretoOona Maeve Renee Campbell
Published in: PLoS medicine (2021)
In this study, we observed that in Robson groups with low expected frequencies of CD, this procedure was associated with a 25% increase in child mortality. However, in groups with high expected frequencies of CD, the findings suggest that clinically indicated CD is associated with a reduction in child mortality.
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