ArticleMaternal and child health journal2014
Disparities in cesarean delivery by ethnicity and nativity in New York city.
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- Socioeconomic disadvantage and racial/ethnic disparities in low-risk cesarean birth in California.American journal of epidemiology · 2025Article
- Regional differences in autism and intellectual disability risk associated with cesarean section delivery.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2024Article
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- Higher Rates of Cesarean Sections Found in Somali Immigrant Women in Minnesota.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2022Review
- Maternal Morbidity Predicted by an Intersectional Social Determinants of Health Phenotype: A Secondary Analysis of the NuMoM2b Dataset.Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) · 2022Article
- Examining Cesarean Delivery Rates by Race: a Population-Based Analysis Using the Robson Ten-Group Classification System.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2021Article
- Language Preference and Risk of Primary Cesarean Delivery: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Maternal and child health journal · 2021Article
- Caesarean delivery in a migration context: the role of prior delivery in the host country.Sexual and reproductive health matters · 2020Article
- Geospatial variation in caesarean delivery.Nursing open · 2020Observational
- Elucidating the role of overweight and obesity in racial and ethnic disparities in cesarean delivery risk.Annals of epidemiology · 2020Article
- Examining Trends in Obstetric Quality Measures for Monitoring Health Care Disparities.Medical care · 2018Article
- Factors influencing women's perceptions of shared decision making during labor and delivery: Results from a large-scale cohort study of first childbirth.Patient education and counseling · 2018Article
- Risk Factors for Shoulder Dystocia: the Impact of Mother's Race and Ethnicity.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2018Observational
- Women's cesarean section preferences and influencing factors in relation to China's two-child policy: a cross-sectional study.Patient preference and adherence · 2018Article
- MRI findings of complications related to previous uterine scars.European journal of radiology open · 2018Review
- Prenatal attitudes toward vaginal delivery and actual delivery mode: Variation by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status.Birth (Berkeley, Calif.) · 2017Article
- What Are Optimal Cesarean Section Rates in the U.S. and How Do We Get There? A Review of Evidence-Based Recommendations and Interventions.Journal of women's health (2002) · 2017Review
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Abstract
Our objective was to examine differences in risk of cesarean delivery among diverse ethnic groups in New York City. Using cross-sectional New York City birth and hospitalization data from 1995 to 2003 (n = 961,381) we estimated risk ratios for ethnic groups relative to non-Hispanic whites and immigrant women relative to US-born women. Adjusting for insurance, pre-pregnancy weight, maternal age, education, parity, birthweight, gestational age, year, medical complications, and pregnancy complications, all ethnic groups except East Asian women were at an increased risk of cesarean delivery, with the highest risk among Hispanic Caribbean women [adjusted risk ratio (aRR) = 1.27, 95 % CI (confidence interval) = 1.24, 1.30] and African American women (aRR = 1.20, 95 % CI = 1.17, 1.23). Among Hispanic groups, immigrant status further increased adjusted risk of cesarean delivery; adjusted risk ratios for foreign-born women compared to US-born women of the same ethnic group were 1.27 for Mexican women (95 % CI = 1.05, 1.53), 1.23 for Hispanic Caribbean women (95 % CI = 1.20, 1.27), and 1.12 for Central/South American women (95 % CI = 1.04, 1.21). Similar patterns were found in subgroup analyses of low-risk women (term delivery and no pregnancy or medical complications) and primiparous women. We found evidence of disparities by ethnicity and nativity in cesarean delivery rates after adjusting for multiple risk factors. Efforts to reduce rates of cesarean delivery should address these disparities. Future research should explore potential explanations including hospital environment, provider bias, and patient preference.
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