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Osorio JH. Specific considerations for understanding the sudden infant death syndrome. Hacia Promoc. Salud [Internet]. 2007 Jan. 1 [cited 2024 Aug. 24];12:79-88. Available from: https://revistasojs.ucaldas.edu.co/index.php/hacialapromociondelasalud/article/view/1949
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Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is a complex, multifactorial disorder, the cause of which is still not fully understood. Recent advances in research related to molecular genetics and pathophysiology performed in victims of SIDS show that this, like all other human conditions in health and disease represents the confluence of specific environmental risk factors interacting in complex metabolic ways. The present review analyses the general conditions needed to understand this syndrome.
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Samuels M. Viruses and sudden infant death. Paediatr Respir Rev 2003:4:178-83.
Balduzzi PC, Greendyke RM. Sudden unexpected death in infancy and viral infection. Pediatrics 1966:38:201–206.
Ray CG, Beckwith JB, Hebestreit NM, Bergman AB. Studies of the sudden infant death syndrome in King County Washington. I the role of viruses. J Am Med Assoc 1970:211:619–623.
Williams AL, Uren EC, Bretherton L. Respiratory viruses and sudden infant death. BMJ 1984:288:1491–1493.
Gilbert R, Rudd P, Berry PJ, Fleming PJ, Hall E, White DG, et al. Combined effect of infection and heavy wrapping on the risk of sudden unexpected infant death. Arch Dis Child 1992: 67:171–177.
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Morris JA. The common bacterial toxin hypothesis of sudden infant death syndrome. FEMS Immunol Med Microbiol 1999:25:11–17.
Perrin DG, McDonald TJ, Cutz E. Hyperplasia of bombesinimmunoreactive pulmonary neuroendocrine and neuroepithelial bodies in sudden infant death syndrome. Pediatr Pathol 1991:11:431–447.
Guntheroth WG. Interleukin-1 as intermediary causing sleep apnea and SIDS during respiratory infection. Med Hypotheses 1989:28:121–123.
Howatson AG. Viral infection and interferon in SIDS. J Clin Pathol 1992:45(Suppl.):25–28.
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Lindgren C. Respiratory syncytial virus and the sudden infant death syndrome. Acta Paediatr 1993:389(Suppl.):67–69.
Vege A, Chen Y, Hauge S, Saugstad OD, Rognum TO. Vitreous humor hypoxanthine levels in SIDS and infectious death. Acta Paediatr 1994:83:634–639.
Cutz E, Jackson A. Airway inflammation and peripheral chemoreceptors. In: Byard RW, Krous HF (eds). Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Problems, Progress and Possibilities. London: Arnold: 2001.156–181.
Beal S, Porter C. Sudden infant death syndrome related to climate. Acta Paediatr Scand 1991:80:278–287.
Gilbert R, Fleming PJ, Azaz Y, Rudd PT. Signs of illness in babies preceding sudden unexpected infant death. BMJ 1990: 300:1237–1239.
Helweg-Larsen K, Lundemose JB, Oyen N, Skjaerven R, Alm B, Wennergren G, et al. Interactions of infectious symptoms and modifiable risk factors in sudden infant death syndrome. The Nordic Epidemiological SIDS study. Acta Paediatr 1999:88:521–527.
Blackwell C, Weir DM, Busutill A. A microbiological perspective. In: Byard RW, Krous HF (eds). Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, Problems Progress and Possibilities. London: Arnold: 2001.182–208.
Mitchell EA, Milerad J. Smoking and sudden infant death syndrome. In: International consultation on environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and child health. Geneva: World Health Organization: 1999. 105-129.
Iyasu S, Randall LL, Welty TK, Hsia J, Kinney HC, Mandell F, et al. Risk factors for sudden infant death syndrome among Northern Plains Indians. JAMA 2002:288:2717-2723.
l’Hoir MP, Engelberts AC, van Well GT, Westers P, Mellenbergh GJ, Wolters WH, et al. Case–control study of current validity of previously described risk factors for SIDS in the Netherlands. Arch Dis Child 1998:79:386-393.
Burd L, Klug MG, Martsolf JT. Increased sibling mortality in children with fetal alcohol syndrome. Addict Biol 2004;9:179-86.
Blair PS, Fleming PJ, Bensley D, Smith I, Bacon C, Taylor E, et al.Smoking and the sudden infant death syndrome:results from the 1993–5 case–control inquiry into stillbirths and deaths ininfancy. BMJ 1996:313:195-8.
Kandall SR, Gaines J, Habel L, Davidson G, Jessop D. Relationship of maternal substance abuse to subsequent sudden infant death syndrome in offspring. J Pediatr 1993:123:120-126.
Hoffman HJ, Damus K, Hillman L, Krongrad E.. Risk factors for SIDS: results of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development SIDS Cooperative Epidemiological Study. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1988:533:13-30.
Hauck FR, Moore CM, Herman SM, Donovan M, Kalelkar M, Christoffel KK, et al. The contribution of prone sleeping position to the racial disparity in sudden infant death syndrome: the Chicago Infant Mortality Study. Pediatrics 2002:110:772-780.
Chen A, Rogan WJ. Breastfeeding and the risk of postneonatal death in the United States. Pediatrics 2004:113:435-439.
Arnestad M, Andersen M, Vege A, Rognum TO. Changes in the epidemiological pattern of sudden infant death syndrome in southeast Norway, 1984–1998: implications for future prevention and research. Arch Dis Child 200:85:108-115.
Douglas AS, Allan TM, Helms PJ. Seasonality and the sudden infant death syndrome during 1987–9 and 1991–3 in Australia and Britain. BMJ 1996:312:1381-1383.
Brooke H, Gibson A, Tappin D, Brown H. Case–control study of sudden infant death syndrome in Scotland, 1992–5. BMJ 1997:314:1516-520.
Task Force on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. The changing concept of sudden infant death syndrome: diagnostic coding shifts, controversies regarding the sleeping environment, and new variables to consider in reducing risk. Pediatrics 2005:116:1245-1255.
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