Large Study Finds No Link Between Cesarean Sections, Obesity In Children

reports that a large new study published in PLOS Medicine found no link between cesarean sections and obesity in children. For the study, “Swedish researchers tracked medical records of 97,291 men born between 1982 and 1987, following them to age 18,” and found based on an initial assessment of the data that there was “no link between mode of birth and obesity” after factors such as age and body mass index were taken into account. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/10/well/live/cesarean-c-section-obesity-weight-fat-children.html