The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 269 No 7219 p518
12 October 2002

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SIDS risk confirmed

Sleeping on the stomach increases the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), American researchers have confirmed (Pediatrics 2002;110:772). The case-control study involved 260 infants up to one year old who died of SIDS over a three-year period. Researchers found those sleeping on their stomachs were four times more likely to die of SIDS, after adjusting for confounding factors (95 per cent confidence interval 1.8–8.8), compared with infants who slept on their sides or backs.