Head covering and the risk for SIDS: Findings from the New Zealand and German SIDS case-control studies

Pediatrics

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Mitchell, Edwin A ^a   Thompson, John M D ^a   Becroft, David M O ^a   Bajanowski, Thomas ^b   Brinkmann, Bernd ^c   Happe, Arusha ^c   Jorch, Gerhard ^d   Blair, Peter S ^e   Sauerland, Cristina ^c   Vennemann, Mechtild M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^d OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Head covering; Sudden infant death; Sweating; Thymic petechiae

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CAUSE OF DEATH; HEAD; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANCY; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; NEW ZEALAND; PETECHIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; RISK FACTOR; SLEEP; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; SWEAT; BED; GERMANY; NEWBORN;

BEDDING AND LINENS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; GERMANY; HEAD; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; NEW ZEALAND; RISK FACTORS; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH;

EID: 48949092872     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2007-2749     Document Type: Article

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