Sleeping environments as risk factors of sudden infant death syndrome in Japan

Legal Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 18-24

  Mukai, Toshiji ^a   Tamaki, Naoshi ^b   Sato, Yoshinobu ^c   Ohno, Youkichi ^d   Miyazaki, Tetsuji ^b   Nagamori, Hajime ^b   Hara, Shuichi ^a   Endo, Takahiko ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^c KYORIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bedclothes; Co sleeping; Odds ratio; Sleeping position; Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)

Indexed keywords

EID: 4644351797     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1344-6223(99)80005-4     Document Type: Article

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