FAILURE TO AROUSE FROM SLEEP MAY PLAY A ROLE IN SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME (SIDS).1,2 AN INSUFFICIENT PROPENSITY TO AROUSE COULD LOWER the chance of infants surviving when they are exposed to noxious conditions during sleep.3 Compared with matched control infants, infants who eventually died of SIDS have been shown to have fewer body movements and awakenings from sleep, especially by the end ...

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is the most prevalent cause of death in infants between one and six months of age. Epidemiologie pathologie and physiologie data suggest tbe meehanism of SIDS is complex, characterized by interactions at many levels of the neuraxis, between the organism and tbe environment and spanning both preand post-natal life. Details of one such model are presented here....

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome represents one of the most frequent causes of death in children of one year or less. We analyzed SIDS cases from Bucharest and surrounding areas on a ten year period (1999-2008), totaling a number of 298 cases, in order to determine the most important risk factors and possible interventional strategies. Our study revealed five major risk factors for SIDS on which we...

BACKGROUND Parental smoking and prone sleep positioning are recognized causal features of Sudden Infant Death. This study quantifies the relationship between prenatal smoking and infant death over the time period of the Back to Sleep campaign in the United States, which encouraged parents to use a supine sleeping position for infants. METHODS This retrospective cohort study utilized the Color...

BACKGROUND In Germany, 2910 infants died in 2004; for many infants the reason was clear, especially prematurity or congenital abnormalities. However, 394 babies die every year suddenly and unexpectedly. The cause may be immediately clear, but is often not obvious. AIMS (1) To describe the causes of explained sudden unexpected death in infancy (SUDI) and (2) to compare risk factors for sudden ...

BACKGROUND Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) affects approximately 1 in 1000 live births and is the most common cause of infant death after the perinatal period. OBJECTIVE To determine the influence of air pollution on the incidence of SIDS. METHODS Time-series analyses were performed to compare the daily mortality rates for SIDS and the daily air pollution concentrations in each of 12 Ca...

The sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) causes the sudden death of an apparently healthy infant, which remains unexplained despite a thorough investigation, including the performance of a complete autopsy. The triple risk model for the pathogenesis of SIDS points to the coincidence of a vulnerable infant, a critical developmental period, and an exogenous stressor. Primary electrical diseases of...

The pulmonary arterioles and small arteries were studied and their musculature and its nuclei were quantified in 90 neonates, infants, and young children who had suffered from a variety of clinical and hypoxic conditions immediately before death. Among the 90 cases investigated in this study, 30 were of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). No evidence was found to support the view that cases of...

The role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in small island developing states (SIDS) is an issue that has been neglected until relatively recently. The reasons for this lack of interest are unsurprising, given both the low absolute volume of capital flows involved and the general neglect of issues relating directly to SIDS in the mainstream theoretical and empirical economics literature. For SI...

In sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) apnea is the terminal event; whether or not an obstructive apnea is the primary event is unknown. Collapse of the pliable pharyngeal airway during life would not be detected after death and is therefore hard to prove. The distinctive distribution of petechiae at necropsy can be explained by negative intrathoracic pressure before death suggesting upper airw...