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Public health campaigns against sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) that encourage parents to stop antenatal smoking and to place infants into supine sleeping positions have been successful. Still, SIDS deaths continue, largely among families in the lowest socioeconomic brackets. To further characterize SIDS vulnerability, investigators used national registries to examine parental admissions for psychiatric disorders and substance use disorder (SUD) and incidence of SIDS in all 2.5 million Swedish live singleton births between 1978 and 2004.
In Sweden, a public-health SIDS campaign was implemented in 1992, and almost all out-of-hospital infant deaths prompt autopsy. The researchers examined possible confounders, including maternal antenatal …