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AJPH First Look, published online ahead of print Mar 29, 2006
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Maternal Risk Profiles and the Primary Cesarean Rate in the United States, 1991–2002

Eugene Declercq, PhD, Fay Menacker, DrPH and Marian MacDorman, PhD

Eugene Declercq is with the Maternal and Child Health Department, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Mass. Fay Menacker and Marian MacDorman are with the Division of Vital Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, Md.


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  		FIGURE 1— Overall and primary cesarean rates and primary cesarean rates among low-risk primiparous and multiparous women: United States, 1991–2002.

Note. Rates are per 100 births. Low-risk mothers were defined as those with singleton, full-term (≥ 37 weeks) births involving vertex presentations.

 




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