Modifiable risk factors, sleep environment, developmental physiology and common polymorphisms: Understanding and preventing sudden infant deaths

Early Human Development

Volumn 82, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 761-766

  Fleming, Peter ^a   Tsogt, Bazra ^b   Blair, Peter S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Death scene investigations; ; Epidemiology of SIDS; ; Infant developmental physiology; ; Pathophysiology of SIDS; Sudden Infant Death syndrome (SIDS); ; Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy (SUDI); ; Triple risk hypothesis;

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CHILD CARE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FALLING; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; INFANT; LAW; MANDATORY PROGRAM; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROPHYLAXIS; RISK FACTOR; SLEEP; SOCIAL STATUS; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; UNITED KINGDOM; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

BEDDING AND LINENS; BEDS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; GROWTH; HUMANS; INFANT; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RISK FACTORS; SLEEP; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH;

EID: 33750628248     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2006.09.012     Document Type: Article

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