MadSci Network: Medicine
Query:

Re: is there any new information concerning the causes of SIDS and is it still

Area: Medicine
Posted By: William M. Rich, MD faculty,Univ. Med. Ctr
Date: Sun May 4 22:36:42 1997
Area of science: Medicine
ID: 862670569.Me
Message:
Daniel,

A review of the titles of 50 recent reports on Sudden Infant Death
Syndrome ( SIDS), suggest everything from sleeping position, type
of pillow, bacterial infection, viral infection, maternal selenium level
allergies and some articles questioning how to even define this
syndrome. I do not think that there have been any widely accepted
reports as to causation recently.

It would be interesting to review the past 5 years worth of reports
just to see how many causes have been proposed. And then compare
it to the prior 5 or 10 years to see if there are any trends.

WMR

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