Rethinking caesarean delivery
Jun 12, 2015•17 min
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Episode description
Caesarean delivery can improve maternal and child health, and even save lives. But recent research points to latent risks for chronic disease: children delivered by caesarean have a higher incidence of type diabetes, obesity, and asthma.
Jan Blustein, from New York University, joins us to discuss why she and colleage Jainmeng Liu believe this evidence should be examined and taken into account when considering elective caesarean.
Read their full analysis:
http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h2410
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