Association of Poverty with Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in Metropolitan Counties of the United States in the Years 1990 and 2000

2007 ◽  
Vol 100 (11) ◽  
pp. 1107-1113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael H. Malloy ◽  
Karl Eschbach
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome ◽  
Infant Death ◽  
Sudden Infant Death ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sudden Infant ◽  
Metropolitan Counties

scholarly journals Ambient Temperature and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in the United States

Epidemiology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 728-734 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iny Jhun ◽  
Douglas A. Mata ◽  
Francesco Nordio ◽  
Mihye Lee ◽  
Joel Schwartz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Ambient Temperature ◽  
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome ◽  
Infant Death ◽  
Sudden Infant Death ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sudden Infant

Incidence of Recurrence of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

1993 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 94-116
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome ◽  
Infant Death ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Sudden Infant Death ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sudden Infant ◽  
Specific Population ◽  
Live Births ◽  
Increased Risk

Incidence figures for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) are affected by the specific population being studied, the method of data collection, the way in which the diagnosis is determined, and other variables. The occurrence of SIDS per 100 live births has been estimated to be 1.3 in Norway, 2.1 in South Australia, and 2 to 3 in the United States. Subsequent siblings are at increased risk of SIDS, with estimates ranging from 3.7 times that of the general population to as high as 10 times. Beal et al found that families in South Australia who lost a child older than 12 months of age to SIDS were 11 times more likely to have a subsequent child with SIDS than were families in which the SIDS victim was younger than 1 year of age.

Back to the Breast: An Historical Overview of the Perceived Connections Between Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Breastfeeding

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 310-317
Author(s):  
Brittany Cowgill
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Infant Mortality ◽  
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome ◽  
Infant Death ◽  
Sudden Infant Death ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sudden Infant ◽  
History Of ◽  
Medical Classification ◽  
Possible Cause

In the late 19th century, physicians in the United States and Europe grew concerned about an increasingly visible subset of infant mortality: sudden infant death. Over the next 100 years, physicians worked variably to combat the problem, modifying and refining their conceptions of sudden infant mortality many times over the process. Physicians’ overlapping revisions of sudden infant mortality ultimately helped to produce the categorization of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), and their ensuing, fluctuating efforts to resolve this problem shed light on social and medical perceptions of the roles that biology, the environment, and infant care practices played in sudden infant death. SIDS’s official medical classification was a watershed; not only did the formal medical label establish its “authenticity” as a medical phenomenon, but the label also asserted the inexplicability of (at least some) sudden infant death episodes while simultaneously conveying that affected parents were deserving victims of a tragic loss. In the modern history of sudden infant death in the United States, breastfeeding, in particular, was understood variably as a possible cause for unnecessary infant mortality in the decades surrounding 1900; inconsequential to the occurrence of SIDS in the mid 1900s; and finally as an important and healthful way to reduce the risk for SIDS beginning in the late 1900s.

Infant Sleep Position and Risk for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: Report of Meeting Held January 13 and 14, 1994, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 93 (5) ◽  
pp. 814-819 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marian Willinger ◽  
Howard J. Hoffman ◽  
Robert B. Hartford
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome ◽  
Infant Death ◽  
Sudden Infant Death ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sleep Position ◽  
Sudden Infant ◽  
Infant Sleep ◽  
Postneonatal Mortality ◽  
Infant Sleep Position

Objective. To evaluate the current knowledge on the relationship between infant sleep position and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), and to determine how the information can be used to guide further activities in the United States. Methods. Data from international vital statistics, epidemiologic studies of SIDS risk factors, and studies of outcomes of public health interventions that advocated nonprone sleeping to reduce the risk for SIDS were discussed at a meeting held by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) with cosponsorship from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) on January 13, and 14, 1994. Results. Trends in postneonatal mortality and SIDS rates from 1980 through 1992 were evaluated for Australia, Britain, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the United States. All of the countries that experienced a rapid decline in prone sleeping also had reductions of approximately 50% in their SIDS rates. Postneonatal mortality rates dropped as well, with the reduction in SIDS being the primary contributor to the reported declines. The major behavioral change in all targeted populations was in sleep position. No significant changes were observed in the proportion of parents who smoked cigarettes, or in breast-feeding. Preliminary data from population-based studies showed there were no reported adverse outcomes associated with a change to side or back sleep position, such as an increase in deaths due to aspiration or in apparent life-threatening events. Conclusion. The overwhelming opinion of the assembled experts was that the evidence justified greater effort to reach parents with the American Academy of Pediatrics' recommendation that healthy infants, when being put down to sleep, be positioned on their side or back.

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-162
Author(s):  
PATRICIA STIVRINS
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome ◽  
Infant Death ◽  
Home Monitoring ◽  
Sudden Infant Death ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sudden Infant ◽  
Evaluation Mode

To the Editor.— I believe that the article by Davidson Ward (Pediatrics 1986;77:451-455) may adversely influence the use of home cardiorespiratory monitoring in the United States. There are several serious problems with this paper. 1. The authors admit that they only had responses from 35% of the apnea programs and 40% of the vendors in their state. This may have very seriously distorted their findings. 2. Death should not be the lone evaluation mode for benefit for home monitoring.

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