The Sudden Infant Death Syndrome  

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Kinney, Hannah C. ; Thach, Bradley T.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The New England Journal of Medicine (keterangan: ada di Proquest) vol. 361 no. 08 (Aug. 2009), page 795-805 .
Topik: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

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Perpustakaan FK Nomor Panggil: N08.K.2009.04 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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The sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), which is characterized by the sudden death of a seemingly healthy infant during a sleep period, has long been considered one of the most mysterious disorders in medicine. However, in recent years, SIDS has been substantially demystified by major advances in our understanding of its relationship to sleep and homeostasis, environmental and genetic risk factors, and biochemical and molecular abnormalities. The most important advance has been the discovery that the prone sleep position more than triples the risk of SIDS, which in the early 1990s led to national and international campaigns advocating a supine sleep position for infants. Since then, it has been estimated that rates of SIDS have declined by more than 50%, and thousands of infant lives have been saved. However, SIDS still remains the leading cause of postneonatal infant death in the United States and is the third leading cause of infant mortality overall. This review highlights the major advances in our understanding of SIDS.

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