The data was obtained from a study of singleton births from 1996 to 2004 carried out the March of Dimes Foundation, the Albert Einstein School of Medicine, the Federation and the Center for Disease Prevention and Control of the United States.
The researchers found an increase in preterm birth from 9.7% to 10.7%, with 92% of which came from the caesarean.
Most were born after 34-37 weeks of gestation, whereas the normal process of 38-42 weeks. The researchers saw the possibility that the increase is nothing to do with a caesarean section that is not medically necessary.
This fact is quite alarming the mother, especially, because premature infants would be at risk of experiencing respiratory problems, breastfeeding, delayed brain development as well as other health problems resulting in death.
However, the researchers did not say how much the number of caesarean section in the study is to blame.
A head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology University of Illinois Dr. Sarah J Kilpatrick has different views about the research. She said there was no evidence that caesarean section 'unnecessary' has occurred or resulted in the birth of a premature baby.
This new report will be published in June in a medical journal, Clinics in Perinatology.
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