The rate of babies delivered by cesarean section in New York City increased to 30.6%, in 2006, up from 29.7% in 2005, in a trend that some politicians, doctors, and women’s health advocates say is cause for concern. The citywide increase reflects a national upward trend in the number of cesarean deliveries in recent years. Last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that the national cesarean rate in 2006 reached a record high, 31.1%, according to its preliminary birth data for that year. A report released in 2006 based on 2005 data detailing individual hospitals’ cesarean section rates demonstrates that there is concern throughout the country that there are too many cesarean section deliveries – adding both cost and risk to the patient. “It’s clearly been rising,” the physician head of obstetrics at Brooklyn’s Lutheran Medical Center, Dr. Iffath Hoskins, said. “On a day-to-day basis, there will be three or four cesareans going on at a given time,” she said, estimating that one in three deliveries at Lutheran results in a cesarean.
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