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Sudden infant death syndrome is responsible for hundreds of deaths each year
Rates of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome rose 12% between 2020 and 2022, even though overall mortality rates have decreased, according to a new study
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.
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 ]
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.
[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.
Due to the rarity and often inexplicable nature of these deaths, the law posited that "one sudden infant death is a tragedy, two is suspicious and three is murder until proved otherwise." Now recognized as fundamentally flawed and based on misunderstanding of statistics , Meadow's Law has been heavily criticized for leading to wrongful ...
World map of infant mortality rates in 2017. Infant mortality is the death of an infant before the infant's first birthday. [1] The occurrence of infant mortality in a population can be described by the infant mortality rate (IMR), which is the number of deaths of infants under one year of age per 1,000 live births. [1]