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Low-Risk Cesarean Deliveries by Year, New Jersey and the United States, 1990 to 2022
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Why Is This Important?
Compared to vaginal deliveries, cesareans carry an increased risk of infection, blood clots, longer recovery, and difficulty with future pregnancies.
Definition
The low-risk cesarean delivery rate is the percentage of cesarean deliveries among '''n'''ulliparous (first birth), '''t'''erm (37 completed weeks or more, based on the obstetric estimate), '''s'''ingleton (one fetus), '''v'''ertex (head first) births, sometimes referred to as NTSV births.
Data Notes
This is Healthy New Jersey 2020 (HNJ2020) Objective MCH-14. Confidence intervals are not available for U.S. data.Data Sources
- Birth Certificate Database, Office of Vital Statistics and Registry, New Jersey Department of Health
(https://www.nj.gov/health/vital/) - National Vital Statistics Reports, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/nvsr.htm)
How the Measure is Calculated
Numerator:
Number of cesarean deliveries among nulliparous, full-term, singleton, vertex presentation (NTSV) birthsDenominator:
Total number of nulliparous, full-term, singleton, vertex presentation (NTSV) births
Related Health Objectives and Indicators
Health Initiative: HP2030
Healthy People 2030 Objective MICH-06
U.S. Target: Reduce cesarean births among low-risk women with no prior births to 23.6 percent by 2030
https://health.gov/healthypeople/objectives-and-data/browse-objectives/pregnancy-and-childbirth/reduce-cesarean-births-among-low-risk-women-no-prior-births-mich-06
Health Initiative: HP2020
Healthy People 2020 Objective MICH-7.1
U.S. Target: Reduce cesarean births among low-risk (full-term, singleton, vertex presentation) women with no prior births to 24.7 percent by 2020
https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/maternal-infant-and-child-health
Health Initiative: HNJ2020
Healthy NJ 2020 Objective MCH-14
NJ Target: Reduce cesarean births among low-risk (nulliparous, full-term, singleton, vertex presentation) women to 27.9 percent for the total population, 30.3% for Asians, 29.3% for Blacks, 27.6% for Hispanics, and 27.0% for Whites by 2020
https://www.nj.gov/health/chs/hnj2020/topics/maternal-child-health.shtml