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Pregnancy Risk Factors, Cesarean Sections, Delivery Complications,
Congenital Anomalies, and/or Abnormal Conditions of the Newborn
Percent by County of Residence
West Virginia Resident Births, 1999
Table 20

County Pregnancy Risk Factors Cesarean Section 1 or More
Complications
of Labor and/
or Delivery		 1 or More
Congenital
Anomalies		 1 or More
Abnormal
Conditions of
the Newborn

Alcohol
Use
Tobacco
Use		 1 or More
Medical
Risk Factors
Primary
Secondary
Barbour 0.0 28.8 21.7 13.0 7.1 34.8 1.6 4.3
Berkeley 1.2 25.6 50.7 13.3 10.2 42.3 1.8 22.0
Boone 0.3 33.8 27.3 19.2 10.1 25.3 1.6 2.9
Braxton 0.0 26.6 17.7 12.0 9.5 22.2 0.6 1.9
Brooke 0.4 26.9 23.6 14.0 11.6 23.6 1.7 3.3
Cabell 0.7 23.3 36.5 16.2 10.1 36.4 1.4 3.7
Calhoun 0.0 32.9 25.3 17.7 11.4 24.1 3.8 3.8
Clay 0.7 34.1 29.7 15.2 5.8 26.1 0.0 1.4
Doddridge 0.0 25.3 15.4 13.2 11.0 23.1 0.0 4.4
Fayette 0.7 30.7 42.6 15.0 8.0 36.6 3.5 9.2
Gilmer 0.0 22.5 16.3 11.3 8.8 21.3 1.3 1.3
Grant 0.0 13.1 10.0 21.5 7.7 46.2 0.8 3.1
Greenbrier 1.6 22.8 53.3 13.6 8.1 11.3 0.8 3.9
Hampshire 0.4 23.3 26.5 12.6 10.7 28.9 2.0 4.3
Hancock 0.9 22.5 24.8 15.6 7.8 31.7 2.0 4.0
Hardy 0.7 19.3 24.1 17.2 11.0 33.1 0.7 4.8
Harrison 0.4 24.7 19.2 14.7 9.7 30.1 1.2 2.7
Jackson 0.0 24.2 32.8 17.2 8.6 27.8 0.7 2.0
Jefferson 0.7 22.4 44.4 15.0 10.0 41.5 2.2 14.1
Kanawha 0.3 27.2 29.8 18.5 8.7 29.5 0.4 1.8
Lewis 0.6 23.5 18.4 16.2 14.5 23.5 0.0 3.4
Lincoln 0.8 34.8 28.4 18.6 8.0 33.0 1.5 3.8
Logan 0.0 34.5 28.9 22.3 12.6 30.2 0.5 1.4
McDowell 0.3 43.2 38.5 18.6 10.7 27.5 0.6 1.8
Marion 0.3 20.0 27.2 13.8 6.8 41.1 0.8 4.4
Marshall 2.9 32.6 36.0 17.0 9.8 32.6 0.9 4.0
Mason 0.0 27.2 17.3 13.5 11.5 30.8 0.0 3.8
Mercer 0.4 27.1 28.0 14.0 10.0 20.5 1.5 4.3
Mineral 0.0 21.4 32.0 15.6 8.8 36.1 2.0 10.9
Mingo 0.5 30.3 28.5 29.0 14.4 28.5 1.2 4.5
Monongalia 1.0 15.0 33.1 10.3 4.8 40.3 1.2 5.0
Monroe 0.0 18.7 38.1 17.9 15.7 18.7 3.0 9.0
Morgan 1.3 28.7 44.0 14.0 8.0 41.3 0.7 8.7
Nicholas 0.8 26.7 37.2 23.3 12.4 42.9 1.9 6.4
Ohio 2.3 24.0 35.4 13.5 12.0 32.9 0.6 2.7
Pendleton 2.3 19.8 27.9 17.4 2.3 44.2 1.2 5.8
Pleasants 0.0 20.6 29.9 15.5 11.3 36.1 1.0 1.0
Pocahontas 1.0 24.0 36.5 11.5 6.2 16.7 0.0 2.1
Preston 0.7 20.7 37.5 11.2 7.2 55.3 2.0 4.9
Putnam 1.0 17.7 27.3 16.1 8.8 27.5 1.1 2.4
Raleigh 0.6 28.7 47.9 15.3 9.1 39.2 4.0 12.0
Randolph 0.6 24.9 24.3 10.1 7.5 30.1 0.6 6.9
Ritchie 0.0 29.1 27.8 5.1 10.1 24.1 1.3 3.8
Roane 0.0 20.3 22.7 16.9 9.9 33.7 1.2 2.3
Summers 1.0 28.0 41.0 16.0 12.0 32.0 0.0 10.0
Taylor 0.6 31.1 23.8 12.8 3.7 36.6 1.8 7.3
Tucker 0.0 29.9 22.1 10.4 3.9 26.0 2.6 6.5
Tyler 1.8 23.0 30.1 10.6 14.2 27.4 0.0 5.3
Upshur 0.0 23.0 25.4 8.6 9.0 25.4 1.6 7.4
Wayne 0.0 24.8 29.5 16.8 10.4 35.0 0.4 2.6
Webster 0.0 25.0 29.3 15.2 9.8 35.9 1.1 2.2
Wetzel 1.6 31.1 36.3 20.2 12.4 37.3 1.0 2.6
Wirt 0.0 25.8 33.9 16.1 11.3 33.9 0.0 1.6
Wood 0.6 23.2 26.8 10.5 9.1 30.3 0.5 2.1
Wyoming 0.3 34.4 44.7 15.1 8.2 36.8 4.1 6.9
Total 0.6 25.6 32.3 15.5 9.4 32.6 1.3 5.3
County
Alcohol
Use
Tobacco
Use		 1 or More
Medical
Risk Factors
Primary
Secondary		 1 or More
Complications
of Labor and/
or Delivery		 1 or More
Congenital
Anomalies		 1 or More
Abnormal
Conditions of
the Newborn
Pregnancy Risk Factors Cesarean Section


Last updated March 28, 2001.

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