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SIDS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Sudden and unexpected death of an apparently healthy infant during sleep
Synonyms:
cot death; crib death; infant death; SIDS; sudden infant death syndrome
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("SIDS" is a kind of...):
death (the absence of life or state of being dead)
sleep apnea (apnea that occurs during sleep)
Context examples:
Taken together, the researchers wrote, the findings suggest that an abnormality in serotonin metabolism could indicate an underlying vulnerability that increases SIDS risk and that testing blood samples for serotonin could distinguish certain SIDS cases from other infant deaths.
(Blood of SIDS infants contains high levels of serotonin, National Institutes of Health)
Many studies have shown that the risk of SIDS is increased by maternal smoking during pregnancy.
(Combined prenatal smoking and drinking greatly increases SIDS risk, National Institutes of Health)
Blood samples from infants who died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) had high levels of serotonin, a chemical that carries signals along and between nerves, according to a study led by Robin L. Haynes, Ph.D., of Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
(Blood of SIDS infants contains high levels of serotonin, National Institutes of Health)
Now, the Safe Passage Study provides a look at how SIDS risk is influenced by the timing and amount of prenatal exposure to tobacco and alcohol.
(Combined prenatal smoking and drinking greatly increases SIDS risk, National Institutes of Health)
The Safe Passage Study provides important new information about the role of dual exposures to prenatal smoking and drinking as risk factors for SIDS, said co-first author Hannah C. Kinney, M.D., of the Department of Pathology at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard School of Medicine.
(Combined prenatal smoking and drinking greatly increases SIDS risk, National Institutes of Health)
Children born to mothers who both drank and smoked beyond the first trimester of pregnancy have a 12-fold increased risk for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) compared to those unexposed or only exposed in the first trimester of pregnancy.
(Combined prenatal smoking and drinking greatly increases SIDS risk, National Institutes of Health)
“Ours is the first large-scale prospective study to closely investigate the association between prenatal alcohol and tobacco exposure and the risk of SIDS,” said first author Amy J. Elliott, Ph.D., of the Avera Health Center for Pediatric & Community Research in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
(Combined prenatal smoking and drinking greatly increases SIDS risk, National Institutes of Health)
In addition to the almost 12-fold increased SIDS risk from combined smoking and drinking beyond the first trimester of pregnancy, they determined that the risk of SIDS was increased five-fold in infants whose mothers reported they continued smoking beyond the first trimester, and four-fold in infants whose mothers reported they continued drinking beyond the first trimester.
(Combined prenatal smoking and drinking greatly increases SIDS risk, National Institutes of Health)
