Risk Factors for Suffocation and Unexplained Causes of Infant Deaths.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Observational studies have improved our understanding of the risk factors for sudden infant death syndrome, but separate examination of risk for sleep-related suffocation and unexplained infant deaths has been limited. We examined the association between unsafe infant sleep practices and sudden infant deaths (sleep-related suffocation and unexplained causes including sudden infant death syndrome).

Methods

We conducted a population-based case-control study using 2016 to 2017 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data. Controls were liveborn infants from the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System; cases were from the Sudden Unexpected Infant Death Case Registry. We calculated risk factor prevalence among cases and controls and crude and adjusted odds ratio

SUBMITTER: Parks SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9942004 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature