Caesarean section and risk of infection in offspring: systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies
Isobel Masson Francis Todd, Maria Christine Magnus, Lars Henning Pedersen, David Burgner, Jessica Eden Miller · 2024
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Description
Isobel Todd and four colleagues pool thirty-one studies on over ten million children to ask whether caesarean birth raises infection risk through childhood. The question matters because caesarean rates are high, and early microbial exposure differs sharply by birth mode.
Children born by caesarean, emergency or elective, went to hospital with infections at somewhat higher rates. That included upper respiratory infections, with hazard ratios around 1.10 to 1.12. Effects on infections outside hospital were judged by direction rather than pooled numbers. The evidence comes all from high-income-country cohorts. The authors weigh bias carefully; the raw increase is small but consistent across very large groups.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Isobel Masson Francis Todd, Maria Christine Magnus, Lars Henning Pedersen, David Burgner, Jessica Eden Miller |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 40 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |