Infant leukaemias and cot deaths.

Cot deaths in Edinburgh: infant feeding and socioeconomic factors.

One hundred and twenty-six consecutive cases of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) in the Edinburgh area have been studied with particular reference to the interrelationship of feeding, associated biochemical changes, and social status. There was an excess of cases born to parents in Social Classes IV and V: the effect was maximal in children who dies beyond 12 weeks of age. A low-grade uraemi...

Cot deaths: the aftermath.

Vaccination and cot deaths in perspective.

In 1985 twin boys simultaneously succumbed to sudden unexpected deaths two to three hours after vaccination with diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis vaccine (DTP). This occurrence again raises the question of whether an association of sudden infant death (SID) with vaccination is other than temporal. Taking the incidence of SID in conjunction with rates of infant vaccination in the United Kingdo...

Unexpected postneonatal deaths ( cot deaths ) due to recognizable disease PATRICIA

McWeeny, P. M., and Emery, J. L. (1975). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 50, 191. Unexpected postneonatal deaths (cot deaths) due to recognizable disease. At least a quarter of the babies dying as unexpected home 'cot deaths' do so from recognizable diseases. A study of the background of such children, compared with age and admission controls, suggests that the disease symptomatology in this ...

Unexpected postneonatal deaths (cot deaths) due to recognizable disease.

At least a quarter of the babies dying as unexpected home 'cot deaths' do so from recognizable diseases. A study of the background of such children, compared with age and admission controls, suggests that the disease symptomatology in this group of children differs in no way from children who are successfully treated. The factors leading to the death of these children appear to lie in the gener...