ArticleInternational journal of pediatrics2009
A Unifying Theory for SIDS.
Article in International journal of pediatrics, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.
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- Metabolic acidosis and sudden infant death syndrome: overlooked data provides insight into SIDS pathogenesis.World journal of pediatrics : WJP · 2025Review
- Rates of Sudden Unexpected Infant Death Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- Current SIDS research: time to resolve conflicting research hypotheses and collaborate.Pediatric research · 2023Review
- Rapid Eye Movement Sleep during Early Life: A Comprehensive Narrative Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
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- Developmental changes in cardiac expression of KCNQ1 and SCN5A spliceoforms: Implications for sudden unexpected infant death.Heart rhythm · 2022Article
- The Science (or Nonscience) of Research Into Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Article
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- Respiratory rhythm generation, hypoxia, and oxidative stress-Implications for development.Respiratory physiology & neurobiology · 2019Review
- Mechanisms underlying a critical period of respiratory development in the rat.Respiratory physiology & neurobiology · 2019Review
- Neonatal circumcision and prematurity are associated with sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).Journal of clinical and translational research · 2019Article
- An Acute Respiratory Infection of a Physiologically Anemic Infant is a More Likely Cause of SIDS than Neurological Prematurity.Frontiers in neurology · 2016Article
- A "Wear and Tear" Hypothesis to Explain Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.Frontiers in neurology · 2016Article
- The Role of Infection and Inflammation in Stillbirths: Parallels with SIDS?Frontiers in immunology · 2015Review
- Effects of maternal inflammation and exposure to cigarette smoke on birth weight and delivery of preterm babies in a cohort of indigenous Australian women.Frontiers in immunology · 2015Article
- Exploring the risk factors for sudden infant deaths and their role in inflammatory responses to infection.Frontiers in immunology · 2015Review
- Cytokine Levels in Late Pregnancy: Are Female Infants Better Protected Against Inflammation?Frontiers in immunology · 2015Article
- The physiological determinants of sudden infant death syndrome.Respiratory physiology & neurobiology · 2013Review
- Gender considerations in ventilatory and metabolic development in rats: special emphasis on the critical period.Respiratory physiology & neurobiology · 2013Article
- Maternal and perinatal risk factors for SIDS: a novel analysis utilizing pregnancy outcome data.European journal of pediatrics · 2013Article
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Abstract
The Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) has four distinctive characteristics that must be explained by any theory proposed for it. (1) A characteristic male fraction of approximately 0.61 for all postneonatal SIDS in the US; (2) a distinctive lognormal-type age distribution arising from zero at birth, mode at about 2 months, median at about 3 months, and an exponential decrease with age going towards zero beyond one year; (3) a marked decrease in SIDS rate from the discovery that changing the recommended infant sleep position from prone to supine reduced the rate of SIDS, but it did not change the form of the age or gender distributions cited above; (4) a seasonal variation, maximal in winter and minimal in summer, that implies subsets of SIDS displaying evidence of seasonal low-grade respiratory infection and nonseasonal neurological prematurity. A quadruple-risk model is presented that fits these conditions but requires confirmatory testing by finding a dominant X-linked allele protective against cerebral anoxia that is missing in SIDS.
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