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Back to the Bench

Carl E. Hunt, MD

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 1994;148(2):131-133.

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SPIERS AND Guntheroth¹ are reporting the first US study designed to assess the relationship between infant sleep position and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). The "intervention"¹ was an opinion-editorial in the Seattle Times that recommended avoidance of the prone sleeping position. The authors report a subsequent 52% decrease in the local SIDS rate and persistence of this effect for 20 months. They also obtained data from a well-baby clinic suggesting an intervention-associated decrease in prone sleeping from 41% (43 of 105 infants) before the editorial to 17% (four of 25 infants) afterward and hence attributed the apparent decrease in SIDS to prone sleeping. Based on extrapolations from US epidemiological data, they also estimated a 15% decrease in prone sleeping nationally and concluded that this decrease fully explains a concurrent 12% decrease in national SIDS rates. They argue that performance of a prospective study in the United States is . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Department of Pediatrics Medical College of Ohio PO Box 10008 Toledo, OH 43699-0008

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