SIDS risk linked to lack of experience with tummy-sleeping
St. Louis, Dec. 6, 2004 -- Babies who never sleep on their stomachs don't learn behaviors that may lessen their risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found. Even so, the researchers caution that infants should always be placed on their backs to sleep.... ..."The first few times babies who usually sleep on their back...UCLA brain researchers uncover new clues to SIDS
Two new UCLA studies have identified brain irregularities in children who suffer from congenital central hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS), a disease in which children stop breathing during sleep, often resulting in their suffocation and death. The scientists tested how CCHS children's brains react to carbon dioxide and low oxygen levels in comparison to the brains of healthy children. ... ...Providing cribs may help protect at-risk babies from SIDS
ST. LOUIS -- Saint Louis University has pinpointed a promising strategy to decrease the risk of sudden infant death, according to research published in the March issue of the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.... ...Give safe cribs to families who cannot afford to purchase them.... ..."This study shows that in St. Louis, Mo., most impoverished African-American infants who share a bed d...High levels of immune protein in infant brain linked to SIDS
ST. PAUL, MN High levels of a protein called cytokine in the brains of infants could hold a clue to the cause of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), according to a study in the November 11 issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology.... ...Researchers studied the brains of 27 infants. Nineteen died from SIDS, and eight died from other conditions. The team com...Most definitive study of its kind shows that sleeping on the stomach increases infant SIDS risk
Researchers have conducted the most definitive study of its kind to show that sleeping on the stomach increases the risk of U.S. infants for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). Previously, researchers had relied largely on overseas studies for making the recommendation that infants be placed on the back to sleep in order to reduce their risk for SIDS. ...The study focused primarily on SIDS case...