Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

Repeated unexpected infant deaths most likely to be from natural causes

Published in Health and Medicine Week, January 24th, 2005

The most comprehensive epidemiological study to date into recurring sudden unexplained infant death syndrome (SIDS) has been published by researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Authors of the Lancet study concluded that natural causes can explain the deaths of a second or even third unexpected infant death occurring in the same family.

There have been suggestions that when two or three unexpected, unexplained infant deaths occur within a family they are more likely to be unnatural than natural. Robert Carpenter and colleagues assessed the proportion of natural and unnatural infant deaths (i.e., deaths before the...

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Source: Health and Medicine Week (2005-01-24)

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