SIDS & Infant Sleep Ecology

Ball, H.L.; Russell, C.K.

doi:10.1093/emph/eou023

SIDS & Infant Sleep Ecology

Ball, H.L.; Russell, C.K.

Authors

Professor Helen Ball h.l.ball@durham.ac.uk
Professor

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 …

Citation

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
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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