American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Meeting paperSMFM paperThe maternal body mass index: a strong association with delivery route
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Materials and Methods
This is an analysis of data from the Consortium on Safe Labor. The primary goal of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)-sponsored Consortium on Safe Labor was to establish a comprehensive database from multiple sites and to characterize labor and delivery in a contemporary group of women experiencing current obstetrical clinical practices. The complete database contained 228,668 deliveries from 2002 through 2008 acquired from electronic
Results
The entire Consortium on Safe Labor database consisted of 228,668 deliveries. After exclusions (18% prelabor cesareans, 4% multiple gestations, 14% deliveries <37 weeks, 21% missing BMI data, or a combination of these factors), 132,165 met the eligibility criteria for the current study. After removing 7776 deliveries of multiple pregnancies from the same mother and retaining the first delivery, 124,389 patients remained in the analysis data set, of which 17,434 (14.0%) had a cesarean delivery
Comment
Increasing BMI is associated with an increased risk of perinatal complications, including cesarean delivery. As demonstrated in this multicenter study of electronic obstetrical databases, cesarean deliveries were more likely to occur in laboring patients with greater BMIs at labor admission. In addition, these findings were consistent across strata based on parity and prior cesarean status, although the magnitude of the effects differed among the subgroups. The relative effect was most
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This study was supported by the Intramural Research Program of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, through Contract No. HHSN267200603425C.
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Cite this article as: Kominiarek MA, VanVeldhuisen P, Hibbard J, et al. The maternal body mass index: a strong association with delivery route. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2010;203:264.e1-7.