Estimating the effect of cesarean delivery on long-term childhood health across two countries

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 17; no. 10
• Main Authors: Ayya Keshet, Hagai Rossman, Smadar Shilo, Shiri Barbash-Hazan, Guy Amit, Maytal Bivas-Benita, Chen Yanover, Irena Girshovitz, Pinchas Akiva, Avi Ben-Haroush, Eran Hadar, Arnon Wiznitzer, Eran Segal
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 18.10.2022

Assessing the impact of cesarean delivery (CD) on long-term childhood outcomes is challenging as conducting a randomized controlled trial is rarely feasible and inferring it from observational data may be confounded. Utilizing data from electronic health records of 737,904 births, we defined and emu...