ArticleEnvironmental health perspectives2015
Ambient Heat and Sudden Infant Death: A Case-Crossover Study Spanning 30 Years in Montreal, Canada.
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- Ambient Air Pollution and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in Korea: A Time-Stratified Case-Crossover Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Assessing the magnitude and uncertainties of the burden of selected diseases attributable to extreme heat and extreme precipitation under a climate change scenario in Michigan for the period 2041-2070.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2019Article
- Sudden Unexpected Death and the Mammalian Dive Response: Catastrophic Failure of a Complex Tightly Coupled System.Frontiers in physiology · 2019Article
- Establishing Heat Alert Thresholds for the Varied Climatic Regions of British Columbia, Canada.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Article
- Ambient Temperature and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in the United States.Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2017Article
- Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest risk attributable to temperature in Japan.Scientific reports · 2017Observational
- Exploring the possible relationship between ambient heat and sudden infant death with data from Vienna, Austria.PloS one · 2017Article
- Exposure to extreme heat and precipitation events associated with increased risk of hospitalization for asthma in Maryland, U.S.A.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2016Article
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Abstract
backgroundClimate change may lead to more severe and extreme heat waves in the future, but its potential impact on sudden infant death-a leading cause of infant mortality-is unclear.
objectivesWe sought to determine whether risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is elevated during hot weather.
methodsWe undertook a case-crossover analysis of all sudden infant deaths during warm periods in metropolitan Montreal, Quebec, Canada, from 1981 through 2010. Our analysis included a total of 196 certified cases of SIDS, including 89 deaths at 1-2 months of age, and 94 at 3-12 months. We estimated associations between maximum outdoor temperatures and SIDS by comparing outdoor temperatures on the day of or day before a SIDS event with temperatures on control days during the same month, using cubic splines to model temperature and adjusting for relative humidity.
resultsMaximum daily temperatures of ≥ 29°C on the same day were associated with 2.78 times greater odds of sudden infant death relative to 20°C (95% CI: 1.64, 4.70). The likelihood of sudden death increased steadily with higher temperature. Associations were stronger for infants 3-12 months of age than for infants 1-2 months of age, with odds ratios of 3.90 (95% CI: 1.87, 8.13) and 1.73 (95% CI: 0.80, 3.73), respectively, for 29°C compared with 20°C on the day of the event.
conclusionsHigh ambient temperature may be a novel risk factor for SIDS, especially at ≥ 3 months of age. Climate change and the higher temperatures that result may account for a potentially greater proportion of sudden infant deaths in the future.
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