Shouldn't SIDS Be Recognized?

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 548-549
Author(s):  
LOUIS BORGENICHT
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Infant Mortality ◽  
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome ◽  
Infant Death ◽  
Sudden Infant Death ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mortality Rates ◽  
Vital Statistics ◽  
Sudden Infant

To the Editor: Dr. Wegman's article “Annual Summary of Vital Statistics-1974”(Pediatrics 56:960, December 1975) provides some valuable and interesting information. There is, however, some disconcerting information in Table III,“Infant Mortality Rates by Age and Selective Causes for the United States, 1964 and 1974.” There is no specific listing for the major cause of infant mortality between 1 and 12 months of age: sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). As Dr. Wegman suggests, “To be

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.

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.

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