Nearly 1 In 3 Women Have Babies By C-Section, USA
Feb 19th 2008Drug InformationPregnancy
The proportion of American women having their babies delivered by C-section jumped to nearly one in three in 2005, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The proportion was one in five in 1995. AHRQ found that: - About 1.3 million women gave birth via cesarean section in 2005, a 38 percent increase over the 800,000 C-sections performed in 1995.
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