Presentazione

da "www.independent.co.uk", "Co-sleeping is key culprit in sudden infant death", Thursday, 15 October 2009, byTimothy W. Stone

SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) risk factors related to behaviour.

More than half of sudden infant deaths, reviewed in a study, occurred while the babies shared a bed or sofa with a parent.

The study, published in the British Medical Journal, found that the incidence of Sudden Infant Death syndrome (SIDS) increased when the adult "co-sleeping" with the infant had recently consumed alcohol or drugs.

Some 40 years ago "SIDS" was used to describe cases in which babies died for unknown reasons.

From then the research went on.

Now, a team of researchers led by Peter Fleming of St Michael's Hospital in Bristol, Britain, studied the 80 unexplained SIDS cases that occurred in southwestern England from 2003 through 2006.

They compared them with two control groups (one with "high risk" infants of smoking, socially-deprived, single mothers with two or more kids and the other with  babies from randomly selected families).

Of the SIDS infants, 54 percent died while co-sleeping with a parent.

Socioeconomic deprivation did not seem to be a risk factor.

L'articolo non riporta il tipo di specializzazione dei ricercatori impegnati nello studio nè i criteri utilizzati per la classificazione dei casi nella cosiddetta SIDS. Non resta che prednere atto del fattore di rischio identificato e leggere l'articolo pubblicato nel British Medical Journal (nota dell'amministratore del sito)