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Bed-sharing in the absence of hazardous circumstances : is there a risk of sudden infant death syndrome? : an analysis from two case-control studies conducted in the UK
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Blair, Peter S., Sidebotham, Peter, Pease, Anna and Fleming, Peter J. (2014) Bed-sharing in the absence of hazardous circumstances : is there a risk of sudden infant death syndrome? : an analysis from two case-control studies conducted in the UK. PLoS One, Volume 9 (Number 9). Article number e107799. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0107799
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0107799
Abstract
Objective
The risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) among infants who co-sleep in the absence of hazardous circumstances is unclear and needs to be quantified.
Design
Combined individual-analysis of two population-based case-control studies of SIDS infants and controls comparable for age and time of last sleep.
Setting
Parents of 400 SIDS infants and 1386 controls provided information from five English health regions between 1993–6 (population: 17.7 million) and one of these regions between 2003–6 (population:4.9 million).
Results
Over a third of SIDS infants (36%) were found co-sleeping with an adult at the time of death compared to 15% of control infants after the reference sleep (multivariate OR = 3.9 [95% CI: 2.7–5.6]). The multivariable risk associated with co-sleeping on a sofa (OR = 18.3 [95% CI: 7.1–47.4]) or next to a parent who drank more than two units of alcohol (OR = 18.3 [95% CI: 7.7–43.5]) was very high and significant for infants of all ages. The risk associated with co-sleeping next to someone who smoked was significant for infants under 3 months old (OR = 8.9 [95% CI: 5.3–15.1]) but not for older infants (OR = 1.4 [95% CI: 0.7–2.8]). The multivariable risk associated with bed-sharing in the absence of these hazards was not significant overall (OR = 1.1 [95% CI: 0.6–2.0]), for infants less than 3 months old (OR = 1.6 [95% CI: 0.96–2.7]), and was in the direction of protection for older infants (OR = 0.1 [95% CI: 0.01–0.5]). Dummy use was associated with a lower risk of SIDS only among co-sleepers and prone sleeping was a higher risk only among infants sleeping alone.
Conclusion
These findings support a public health strategy that underlines specific hazardous co-sleeping environments parents should avoid. Sofa-sharing is not a safe alternative to bed-sharing and bed-sharing should be avoided if parents consume alcohol, smoke or take drugs or if the infant is pre-term.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Sudden infant death syndrome, Co-sleeping | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | PLoS One | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Public Library of Science | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1932-6203 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 19 September 2014 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | Volume 9 | ||||||||
| Number: | Number 9 | ||||||||
| Article Number: | Article number e107799 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0107799 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | ||||||||
| Funder: | Lullaby Trust, Babes in Arms, Great Britain. Department of Health (DoH), Charitable Trusts of University Hospitals Bristol |
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