Professor Helen Ball h.l.ball@durham.ac.uk
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SIDS & Infant Sleep Ecology
Ball, H.L.; Russell, C.K.
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C.K. Russell
Abstract
Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is the designation given to the unexpected death of an infant that remains unexplained following post-mortem, death scene investigation and review of clinical history [1]. The search for mechanisms underlying such deaths has been largely unsuccessful; brainstem anomalies are thought to be involved. Although rare SIDS is the leading category of non-accidental deaths between 1 month and 1 year of age, annually affecting one in 3000 babies in the UK and one in 2000 in USA. Key associations with SIDS are identified using retrospective studies of SIDS-cases and matched controls. Three key …
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Ball, H., & Russell, C. (2014). SIDS & Infant Sleep Ecology. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, 2014(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eou023
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | Oct 16, 2014 |
Deposit Date | Oct 25, 2014 |
Publicly Available Date | Jun 9, 2015 |
Journal | Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 2014 |
Issue | 1 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eou023 |
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