ArticleBJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology2020
Risk of preterm birth after prior term cesarean.
Article in BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04554745 (The Assessment of Cervical Length and Thickness of Cesarean Section Scar as Predictors for Preterm Labor in Patients With Previous Cesarean Section), which is not on this map. Cited by 17 papers.
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The Assessment of Cervical Length and Thickness of Cesarean Section Scar as Predictors for Preterm Labor in Patients With Previous Cesarean Section
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17 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Risk of Spontaneous Preterm Birth in a Subsequent Pregnancy After Full Dilatation Caesarean Birth: A Nationwide Cohort Study.BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology · 2025Article
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- Cesarean section and the gestational duration of subsequent pregnancies: A nationwide register-based cohort study.PloS one · 2025Article
- Associations between term cesarean delivery in the first pregnancy and second-pregnancy preterm delivery.Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica · 2025Article
- If the first child is breech, overall outcomes for families with two children are similar regardless of the mode of the first birth.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Cesarean Uterine Lacerations and Prematurity in the Following Delivery: A Retrospective Longitudinal Follow-Up Cohort Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Risk of Preterm Birth among Secundiparas with a Previous Cesarean due to a Failed Vacuum Delivery.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Cesarean delivery and risk of HIV vertical transmission in Southern Brazil, 2008-2018.AJOG global reports · 2023Article
- Identification of risk factors for incident cervical insufficiency in nulliparous and parous women: a population-based case-control study.BMC medicine · 2022Article
- PredictPTB: an interpretable preterm birth prediction model using attention-based recurrent neural networks.BioData mining · 2022Article
- Preterm Labor, a Syndrome Attributed to the Combination of External and Internal Factors.Maternal-fetal medicine (Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.) · 2022Review
- Risk of preterm birth after prior term cesarean.BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology · 2020Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo determine the risk of overall preterm birth (PTB) and spontaneous PTB in a pregnancy after a caesarean section (CS) at term.
designLongitudinal linked national cohort study.
settingThe Dutch Perinatal Registry (1999-2009). POPULATION: 268 495 women with two subsequent singleton pregnancies were identified.
methodsA cohort study based on linked registered data from two subsequent pregnancies in the Netherlands.
main outcome measuresThe incidence of overall PTB and spontaneous PTB with subgroup analysis on gestational age at first delivery and type of CS (planned or unplanned).
resultsOf 268 495 women with a singleton first pregnancy who delivered at term, 15.76% (n = 42 328) had a CS. The incidence of PTB in the second pregnancy was 2.79% (n = 1182) in women with a previous CS versus 2.46% (n = 5570) in women with a previous vaginal delivery (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] 1.14, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.07-1.21). This increased risk is mainly driven by an increased risk of spontaneous PTB after previous CS at term (aOR 1.50, 95% CI 1.38-1.70). Analysis for type of CS compared with vaginal delivery showed an aOR on spontaneous PTB of 1.86 (95% CI 1.58-2.18) for planned CS and an aOR of 1.40 (95% CI 1.24-1.58) for unplanned CS.
conclusionsCS at term is associated with a marginally increased risk of spontaneous PTB in a subsequent pregnancy. TWEETABLE ABSTRACT: Caesarean section at term is associated with a marginally increased risk of spontaneous PTB in a subsequent pregnancy.
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