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Subsequent infants are at risk after SIDS death.(Obstetrics)
Women who have had a baby who died from SIDS are more likely to have preterm birth or intrauterine growth restriction in their next pregnancy than are other women, reported Dr. Gordon C.S. Smith of the University of Cambridge (England) and his associates.
Similarly, women who have had a preterm or small-for-gestational-age (SGA) infant in one pregnancy are more likely to have a baby who dies from SIDS in the next pregnancy.
These associations were discovered in an analysis of large, comprehensive medical databases, and they strongly persisted when the data were adjusted for numerous maternal and demographic factors. However, the associations disappeared when gestational age and intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) were factored into the analysis. From this finding, the investigators concluded that the link between SIDS and preterm birth/intrauterine growth restriction in other pregnancies is due to an as yet unknown maternal factor that underlies both disorders.
In the analysis, Dr. Smith and his associates reviewed information in a database on all Scottish in-hospital births, another database on all perinatal deaths in ...
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