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Rates of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome rose 12% between 2020 and 2022, even though overall mortality rates have decreased, according to a new study
Sudden infant death syndrome is responsible for hundreds of deaths each year
A plot of SIDS rate from 1988 to 2006. The Safe to Sleep campaign, formerly known as the Back to Sleep campaign, [1] is an initiative backed by the US National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) at the US National Institutes of Health to encourage parents to have their infants sleep on their backs (supine position) to reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS.
The results indicated that infants with particular levels of those metabolites in their blood had a higher risk of SIDS — up to 14 times the odds compared to infants with the lowest risk.
Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), sometimes known as cot death or crib death, is the sudden unexplained death of a child of less than one year of age. Diagnosis requires that the death remain unexplained even after a thorough autopsy and detailed death scene investigation. [ 2 ]
This is a list of U.S. states, the District of Columbia and territories by infant mortality rates in 2021. The infant mortality rate is the number of deaths of infants under one year old per 1,000 live births.
[1] [18] The most controversial issue regarding SIDS is whether bed sharing is a main cause, and whether it should be avoided or encouraged. [1] Some research indicates that SIDS risk increases with co-sleeping, particularly bed-sharing; [16] [17] other research indicates that co-sleeping done in an "appropriate and safe" manner reduces SIDS risk.
The Mayo Clinic notes that SIDS can happen to any baby, with males slightly more at risk than females. Our 4-year-old son, Matthew, was born with my sister as a gestational carrier. Matthew knows ...