Changes in background characteristics and risk factors among SIDS infants in England: cohort comparisons from 1993 to 2020.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Using the National Child Mortality Database, this work aims to investigate background characteristics and risk factors in the sleeping environment associated with sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and compare the prevalence with previous English SIDS case-control studies.

Design

Cohort of SIDS in 2020 compared with a combined analysis of two case-control studies conducted in 1993-1996 and 2003-2006.

Setting

England, UK PARTICIPANTS: 138 SIDS deaths in 2020 compared with 402 SIDS deaths and 1387 age-equivalent surviving controls, combined from previous studies.

Results

The increased vulnerability of SIDS infants identified in previous studies has become more marked. The infants who died in 2020 were younger (median=66 days (IQR: 34-118) vs 86 days (

SUBMITTER: Pease A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10582842 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature