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Sleep Environment Risks For Younger And Older Infants., Jeffrey D. Colvin, Vicki Collie-Akers, Christy Schunn, Rachel Y. Moon
Sleep Environment Risks For Younger And Older Infants., Jeffrey D. Colvin, Vicki Collie-Akers, Christy Schunn, Rachel Y. Moon
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OBJECTIVE: Sudden infant death syndrome and other sleep-related causes of infant mortality have several known risk factors. Less is known about the association of those risk factors at different times during infancy. Our objective was to determine any associations between risk factors for sleep-related deaths at different ages.
METHODS: A cross-sectional study of sleep-related infant deaths from 24 states during 2004-2012 contained in the National Center for the Review and Prevention of Child Deaths Case Reporting System, a database of death reports from state child death review teams. The main exposure was age, divided into younger (0-3 months) and older …