SUDC is different from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). SUDC is not a diagnosis but a cause of death used for someone between 12 months and 18 years old who has died from unknown circumstances. Elisabeth Haas , who has a master’s in public health, writes that SIDS is much more common, with a death rate of 38.7 per 100,000 live births; SUDC has a death rate of 1 to 1.4 per 100,000 live births. Common risk factors for SIDS, such as tobacco smoke exposure, bed-sharing, and having an infant sleep on its stomach, historically have not been risk factors for SUDC.
It is often difficult to determine the cause of death of a child who succumbed to SUDC. The deaths are “rarely witnessed and postmortem examinations are unrevealing,” wrote the research team from the New York University (NYU) Grossman School of Medicine that looked into the cause of […]
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