In the Netherlands, the SIDS incidence is very low, which offers opportunities to assess the importance of old and new environmental risk factors.
"Parent groups like SIDS and Kids were drivers with the SIDS agenda; the wonderful work they've done in this country in reducing SIDS has laid a very strong foundation for the stillbirth initiative" Vicki Flenady, M.Med.Sc.Sc
For example, as a result of the SIDS risk reduction awareness campaigns, the rate of SIDS in high income countries has reduced by as much as 83% [ 2].
However, a case control study investigating the association between B. pertussis infection and SIDS did not show a difference in the prevalence of B. pertussis between the SIDS cases and the controls (5.1% vs. 5.3%, respectively) [ 33].
Results: When all the SIDS and non-SIDS cases were compared regardless of smoking status, there was a significantly higher nicotine concentration in the SIDS cases than in the non-SIDS cases, (P =.0001).
At the centre of the Sids revolution was Bristol doctor Peter Fleming.
After the SIDS story, Hargrove's stock rose "insanely high in the newsroom," he said.
Heart tissue samples were taken from nine of the SIDS victims and eight from the control group.
A public education campaign teaching parents to place infants on their back on a firm mattress has reduced the SIDS rate in recent years.
The Sids epidemic can be dated from the time it first appeared on death certificates in 1970, until the public health campaign in 1991.
During the study period, which ran from 1992 to 1995, breastfeeding dropped among the Sids babies from just under 56% to just over 47%.
