The CJ Foundation for SIDS

Recent SIDS/SUID/SUDC Research

The following are links to relevant research studies that have been published in Medical Journals and other scholarly publications

• The brainstem and serotonin in the sudden infant death syndrome.
• HTR2A variation and sudden infant death syndrome: a case-control analysis.
• US infant mortality trends attributable to accidental suffocation and strangulation in bed from 1984 through 2004: Are rates increasing?
• Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) in African Americans: polymorphisms in the gene encoding the stress peptide pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP).
• Maternal smoking impairs arousal patterns in sleeping infants.
• Brainstem mechanisms underlying the sudden infant death syndrome: evidence from human pathologic studies.
• Pacifier use does not alter the frequency or duration of spontaneous arousals in sleeping infants.
• Sleep environment risk factors for sudden infant death syndrome: the German Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Study.
• Risks and benefits of pacifiers.
• Minimizing the risks of sudden infant death syndrome: To swaddle or not to swaddle?
• Maternal smoking and infant mortality: does quitting smoking reduce the risk of infant death?
• Sudden Death, Febrile Seizures, and Hippocampal Maldevelopment in Toddlers: A New Entity.
• Sudden infant death syndrome and sudden intrauterine unexplained death: correlation between hypoplasia of raph‚ nuclei and serotonin transporter gene promoter polymorphism.
• Non-Nutritive Sucking Habits in Sleeping Infants.
• The physician's role in reducing SIDS.
• Infant bed-sharing practices and associated risk factors among births and infant deaths in Alaska.
• Serotonin-Related FEV Gene Variant in the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome is a Common Polymorphism in the African-American Population.
• Medullary serotonin defects and respiratory dysfunction in sudden infant death syndrome.
• Statewide Systematic Evaluation of Sudden, Unexpected Infant Death Classification: Results from a National Pilot Project.
• Does the recommendation to use a pacifier influence the prevalence of breastfeeding?
• The pacifier debate.
• Infant sleep environments depicted in magazines targeted to women of childbearing age.
• Using Death Certificates to Characterize Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS): Opportunities and Limitations.
• Culture care meanings of African American parents related to infant mortality and health care.
• Optimisation of postmortem tissue preservation and alternative protocol for serotonin transporter gene polymorphisms amplification in SIDS and SIUD cases.
• Hazardous cosleeping environments and risk factors amenable to change: case-control study of SIDS in south west England.
• Prenatal nicotine-exposure alters fetal autonomic activity and medullary neurotransmitter receptors: implications for sudden infant death syndrome.
• SIDS: past, present and future
• Observations on Increased Accidental Asphyxia Deaths in Infancy While Cosleeping in the State of Maryland
• Pulmonary arterial medial smooth muscle thickness in Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: an analysis of subsets of 73 cases
• Trends and Factors Associated With Infant Sleeping Position: The National Infant Sleep Position Study, 1993-2007
• To hold or not to hold
• The Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
  A review of the medical advances made against SIDS
• Use of a Fan During Sleep and the Risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
  Researchers at Kaiser Permanente Division of Research found that infants who slept in a bedroom with a fan ventilating the air had a 72% lower risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome compared to infants who slept in a bedroom without a fan.
• Inner-City Caregivers’ Perspectives on Bed Sharing With Their Infants
  Parents’ motivation to bed share outweighed the concerns and the warnings of others. An understanding of parents’ perspectives on bed sharing should inform counseling to promote safe sleeping practices.
• Does Breastfeeding Reduce the Risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome?
  This study shows that breastfeeding reduced the risk of sudden infant death syndrome by ~50% at all ages throughout infancy. We recommend including the advice to breastfeed through 6 months of age in sudden infant death syndrome risk-reduction messages.

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