New Risk Factor for SIDS? Peaks in Cot Deaths Associated with Heat Waves It’s every parent’s worst nightmare: A healthy infant goes down for a nap but never wakes up. Researchers have begun to identify a number of risk factors for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS, also known as cot death), including swaddling, dressing the infant too warmly, and other behaviors that may cause the sleeping chi...

BACKGROUND In the US, a higher incidence of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and a slower decline in the incidence of SIDS has been found among blacks when compared with white infants. The continued racial disparity in SIDS is thought to be attributable to lack of compliance with SIDS risk reduction recommendations. OBJECTIVES To better understand the disparities in SIDS risk reduction beh...

S udden infant death syndrome (SIDS) risk reduction campaigns have resulted in a significant decline in the incidence of SIDS. However, SIDS remains the major single cause of death in children in developed countries, with a reported incidence, together with unascertained deaths, of approximately 1/3000 live births. 2 SIDS is in essence a diagnosis of exclusion, although there are inconsistencie...

AIMS To investigate whether infants who died of SIDS were more likely to have higher acute and lifetime average exposures to outdoor carbon monoxide (CO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) than comparison healthy infants. METHODS A total of 169 case and 169 matched control infants born between 1988 and 1992, were studied. CO and NO2 concentrations, averaged for all days within the infant's lifespan, ...

BACKGROUND The objective of our study is to measure the incidence of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), estimate the birth to death interval, and identify associated maternal and infant risk factors. METHODS We carried out a population-based cohort study on 37 418 280 births using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's "Linked Birth-Infant Death" and "Fetal Death" data f...

AIM To examine the sleeping arrangements of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) cases on the Wirral. In particular to determine the prevalence of bed sharing with mothers who smoke, a known risk factor for SIDS. METHODS Retrospective study of postmortem determined cases of SIDS from 1995 to 2000 on the Wirral peninsula (population 350 000, 3500 annual births). Ambulance crew reports, case not...

It was hypothesized that a short interpregnancy interval immediately following the birth of an infant that had succumbed to sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) (and no other cause of death) would be associated with a reduced mean birth weight in the next infant. Mothers who had given birth to two children in the state of Oregon between 1975 and 1984 and whose first child had died in infancy fro...

CONTEXT Benefits of breastfeeding include lower risk of postneonatal mortality. However, it is unclear whether breastfeeding specifically lowers sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) risk, because study results have been conflicting. OBJECTIVE To perform a meta-analysis to measure the association between breastfeeding and SIDS. METHODS We identified 288 studies with data on breastfeeding and ...

OBJECTIVES To examine the association between use of a dummy (pacifier) during sleep and the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) in relation to other risk factors. DESIGN Population based case-control study. SETTING Eleven counties in California. PARTICIPANTS Mothers or carers of 185 infants whose deaths were attributed to SIDS and 312 randomly selected controls matched for race o...