Modifiable risk factors for SIDS in Germany: Results of GeSID

Vennemann, Mechtild; Findeisen, M.; Butterfaß-Bahloul, Trude; Jorch, Gerhard; Brinkmann, B.; Köpcke, Wolfgang; Bajanowski, Thomas; Mitchell, Ed

doi:10.1111/j.1651-2227.2005.tb01960.x

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“…123,124 In addition, parenting behaviours are consistently found to be important contributory factors, including parental smoking, drug and alcohol use, and unsafe infant sleeping practices. 125,126,127 In relation to fatal child maltreatment, a number of parental characteristics recur, including young maternal age, low level of maternal education, family size, previous abuse, unemployment, parental mental ill-health and substance misuse, domestic violence, and increased parental stress (Panel 5). [128][129] …”

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Understanding why children die in high-income countries

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Copyright and reuse:The Warwick Research Archive Portal (WRAP) makes this work of researchers of the University of Warwick available open access under the following conditions. Copyright © and all moral rights to the version of the paper presented here belong to the individual author(s) and/or other copyright owners. To the extent reasonable and practicable the material made available in WRAP has been checked for eligibility before being made available.Copies of full items can be used for personal research or study, educational, or not-forprofit purposes without prior permission or charge. Provided that the authors, title and full bibliographic details are credited, a hyperlink and/or URL is given for the original metadata page and the content is not changed in any way. AbstractThrough a structured narrative review of the literature, we have identified a wide range of factors influencing child and adolescent mortality in high income countries. These can be conceptualised within the four domains of intrinsic factors, the physical environment, the social environment, and service delivery factors. The most prominent factors in the literature are socio-economic gradients, although the mechanisms through which these gradients exert their effects are complex, affecting all four domains, and often poorly understood. While some factors are relatively fixed, including the child's gender, age, ethnicity and inherent genetic make-up, some parental characteristics, and some wider 3 environmental conditions, others may be amenable to interventions that could lessen risks and help to prevent future child deaths. A number of examples of systemic health service factors that may impact child survival are given, along with interventions such as modifications to the physical or social environmental that may impact more distal factors.

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“…A number of other studies identify bed-sharing as a significant independent risk factor [109,[133][134][135][136]. Vennemann et al [134,135], for instance, concluded from a large German case-control study that bed-sharing with an adult was an independent risk factor for SIDS; however neither parental alcohol consumption nor the clothes worn by infants were included in the analyses, and both are important modifiable factors relevant to SIDS risk [112].…”

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“…Vennemann et al [134,135], for instance, concluded from a large German case-control study that bed-sharing with an adult was an independent risk factor for SIDS; however neither parental alcohol consumption nor the clothes worn by infants were included in the analyses, and both are important modifiable factors relevant to SIDS risk [112]. As infant feeding method is generally not included in calculations of bed-sharing risk; bed-sharing is combined with known high risk environments (sofas) for statistical purposes [112]; the prevalence of bed-sharing in the general population is underestimated [137]; and criteria used to define bed-sharing are inconsistent [108][109][110] it is impossible to evaluate whether there is any risk associated with breastfeedingrelated bed-sharing.…”

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Infant Sleep Development: Location, Feeding and Expectations in the Postnatal Period

Russell¹,

Robinson²,

Ball³

2013

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Abstract:Coping with sleep disruption is a common difficulty faced by new parents. Here we take a critical, contextual and evolutionary perspective on recent evidence surrounding the development of normal infant sleep in the postnatal period, its relationship with feeding method and the relevance of sleep location. Firstly, we explore the question of defining 'normal' infant sleep, considering the timing of sleep consolidation, cross-cultural and historical perspectives, and the impact of feeding method on infant waking and parental tiredness. In the second part of the review we focus on infant sleep location, physiological and behavioural functioning and sleep safety. We summarise recent research exploring the consequences of alternate infant sleep locations, including in-hospital interventions testing the effect of these sleep locations on outcomes associated with mother-infant proximity. Finally we provide an up-to-date review of SIDS research, including case-control and cross-cultural studies that inform policy-creation and authoritative advice to parents. We find that many researchers still neglect crucial variables affecting infant sleep including sleep location and feeding method and conclude that whilst the field of infant sleep research is well-established, future studies would benefit from consideration of infant evolutionary biology and the heterogeneity of infant care practices, which would lead to valuable new research insights in understanding normal infant sleep.

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“…16,22 A recent analysis from the United States found that breast-feeding is associated with a decreased risk of postneonatal deaths overall but not with a decreased risk of SIDS. 58 Although the benefits of breast-feeding are many, data are currently inadequate to recommend it as a strategy to reduce the risk of SIDS.…”

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“…51,52 More recent studies have found that bed sharing was associated with increased risk of SIDS even if mothers did not smoke or if they breast-feed, particularly among younger infants. 22,24,53 Bed sharing has been found to be extremely hazardous when other children are in the same bed, when the parent is sleeping with an infant on a couch or other soft or confining sleep surface and when the infant is less than 4 months of age. 24,46,51,53,54 Risk is also increased with longer duration of bed sharing during the night; returning the infant to his or her own crib was not associated with increased risk.…”

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