A Unifying Theory for SIDS

The Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) has four distinctive characteristics that must be explained by any theory proposed for it. (1) A characteristic male fraction of approximately 0.61 for all postneonatal SIDS in the US; (2) a distinctive lognormal-type age distribution arising from zero at bir...

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Main Authors: David T. Mage, Maria Donner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2009-01-01
Series:International Journal of Pediatrics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/368270