ArticlePediatrics2014
Sofas and infant mortality.
Article in Pediatrics, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
17 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 56 citations in OpenAlex.
- Safer Sleep Guidance in Standalone UK Smartphone Apps for Parents of Newborns and Infants: Systematic mHealth App Review.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2026Pooled it
- Interventions to Improve Safer Sleep Practices in Families With Children Considered to Be at Increased Risk for Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2021Pooled it
- Mothers Falling Asleep During Infant Feeding.Pediatrics · 2024Trial
- Oronasal blood, intrathoracic petechiae and pulmonary hemorrhages differentiate prone separate-bed from bed-sharing SIDS cases.Forensic science, medicine, and pathology · 2026Article
- Review
- Caregiver lived experiences attempting to follow safe sleep recommendations to sleep their baby in a cot: a qualitative directed content analysis.Primary health care research & development · 2026Article
- Metabolic acidosis and sudden infant death syndrome: overlooked data provides insight into SIDS pathogenesis.World journal of pediatrics : WJP · 2025Review
- Effect of female literacy rate and education on infant mortality in Peru, 2001-2022.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Beyond the rules: an integrative review of parental perspectives on safer infant sleep in shared environments.Frontiers in public health · 2025Review
- Characteristics of Sudden Unexpected Infant Deaths on Shared and Nonshared Sleep Surfaces.Pediatrics · 2024Article
- Current SIDS research: time to resolve conflicting research hypotheses and collaborate.Pediatric research · 2023Review
- Adolescence as the Context for Understanding Young Mothers' Engagement with Health Promotion: A Phenomenological Exploration.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The Science (or Nonscience) of Research Into Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Article
- Missed Opportunities: Healthcare Encounters Prior to Sudden Unexpected Infant Death.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Article
- Review
- SIDS, prone sleep position and infection: An overlooked epidemiological link in current SIDS research? Key evidence for the "Infection Hypothesis".Medical hypotheses · 2020Review
- Prevalence and Factors Associated With Safe Infant Sleep Practices.Pediatrics · 2019Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
Abstract
objectiveSleeping on sofas increases the risk of sudden infant death syndrome and other sleep-related deaths. We sought to describe factors associated with infant deaths on sofas.
methodsWe analyzed data for infant deaths on sofas from 24 states in 2004 to 2012 in the National Center for the Review and Prevention of Child Deaths Case Reporting System database. Demographic and environmental data for deaths on sofas were compared with data for sleep-related infant deaths in other locations, using bivariate and multivariable, multinomial logistic regression analyses.
resultsA total of 1024 deaths on sofas made up 12.9% of sleep-related infant deaths. They were more likely than deaths in other locations to be classified as accidental suffocation or strangulation (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] 1.9; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.6-2.3) or ill-defined cause of death (aOR 1.2; 95% CI, 1.0-1.5). Infants who died on sofas were less likely to be Hispanic (aOR 0.7; 95% CI, 0.6-0.9) compared with non-Hispanic white infants or to have objects in the environment (aOR 0.6; 95% CI, 0.5-0.7) and more likely to be sharing the surface with another person (aOR 2.4; 95% CI, 1.9-3.0), to be found on the side (aOR 1.9; 95% CI, 1.4-2.4), to be found in a new sleep location (aOR 6.5; 95% CI, 5.2-8.2), and to have had prenatal smoke exposure (aOR 1.4; 95% CI, 1.2-1.6). Data on recent parental alcohol and drug consumption were not available.
conclusionsThe sofa is an extremely hazardous sleep surface for infants. Deaths on sofas are associated with surface sharing, being found on the side, changing sleep location, and experiencing prenatal tobacco exposure, which are all risk factors for sudden infant death syndrome and sleep-related deaths.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.