ArticleAmerican journal of public health2012
Sudden unexpected infant deaths: sleep environment and circumstances.
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- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: Beyond Risk Factors.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- An evaluation of pathologists' application of the diagnostic criteria from the San Diego definition of SIDS and unclassified sudden infant death.International journal of legal medicine · 2020Article
- Policy-induced selection bias in pharmacoepidemiology: The example of coverage for Alzheimer's medications in British Columbia.Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety · 2019Article
- Sleep-Related Infant Suffocation Deaths Attributable to Soft Bedding, Overlay, and Wedging.Pediatrics · 2019Article
- Primary Care Opportunities to Prevent Unintentional Home Injuries: A Focus on Children and Older Adults.American journal of lifestyle medicine · 2018Article
- Swaddling and Infant Sleeping Practices.Journal of community health · 2017Article
- Sleep arrangements, parent-infant sleep during the first year, and family functioning.Developmental psychology · 2016Article
- Comparison of Infant Sleep Practices in African-American and US Hispanic Families: Implications for Sleep-Related Infant Death.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2015Article
- Reasons for mother-infant bed-sharing: a systematic narrative synthesis of the literature and implications for future research.Maternal and child health journal · 2015Review
- Comprehensive review of sleep-related sudden unexpected infant deaths and their investigations: Florida 2008.Maternal and child health journal · 2015Article
- Sofas and infant mortality.Pediatrics · 2014Article
- Sleep environment risks for younger and older infants.Pediatrics · 2014Article
- The role of cosmetologists as health promoters in the prevention of infant mortality.Journal of community health · 2014Article
- Hypoxia at the heart of sudden infant death syndrome?Pediatric research · 2013Review
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Abstract
objectivesWe sought to describe the characteristics and sleep circumstances of infants who die suddenly and unexpectedly and to examine similarities and differences in risk factors among infants whose deaths are classified as resulting from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), suffocation, or undetermined causes.
methodsWe used 2005 to 2008 data from 9 US states to assess 3136 sleep-related sudden unexpected infant deaths (SUIDs).
resultsOnly 25% of infants were sleeping in a crib or on their back when found; 70% were on a surface not intended for infant sleep (e.g., adult bed). Importantly, 64% of infants were sharing a sleep surface, and almost half of these infants were sleeping with an adult. Infants whose deaths were classified as suffocation or undetermined cause were significantly more likely than were infants whose deaths were classified as SIDS to be found on a surface not intended for infant sleep and to be sharing that sleep surface.
conclusionsWe identified modifiable sleep environment risk factors in a large proportion of the SUIDs assessed in this study. Our results make an important contribution to the mounting evidence that sleep environment hazards contribute to SUIDs.
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