Cesarean Section

Self-reported gender of surgeons was not associated with risk for maternal morbidity or postpartum hemorrhage after cesarean section, according to findings published in JAMA Surgery.

From 2000 to 2019, the prevalence of type 2 diabetes quadrupled, increasing the overall prevalence of pregestational diabetes. The rise in pregestational diabetes increased the odds of adverse pregnancy outcomes, researchers reported.

Exposure to cannabis prenatally was associated with adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes, according to a Canadian cohort study published in PLOS ONE.

Among women with a previous cesarean section, those who underwent vaginal delivery instead of another cesarean delivery were more likely to need pelvic floor surgery, according to data published in PLOS Medicine.

Women with severe preeclampsia who took nifedipine once daily during labor and delivery were less likely to need fast-acting medicine to control their blood pressure during labor, according to a study published in Hypertension.

People who were delivered by cesarean section were more likely to receive a Crohn’s disease diagnosis later in life compared with their vaginally delivered counterparts, according to a population-based cohort study conducted in Sweden.

Women who underwent cesarean delivery may have lower chances of pelvic organ prolapse and stress urinary incontinence surgeries, according to a register-based linkage study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology.

Birth by cesarean section was associated with an increase in risk for childhood asthma, researchers reported in European Respiratory Journal.

Cesarean birth increased risk for atopic dermatitis by age 3 years, especially among infants with eczema, according to a presentation at the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Hybrid Congress.

Women experienced different pelvic floor symptoms depending on their mode of delivery, but those differences were already recognizable even during pregnancy, according to data in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology.