SIDS

Instead, he deferred to an emergency room doctor’s diagnosis of sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS.

But the findings are a promising contribution to scientists’ understanding of SIDS, the leading cause of death for infants between 1 month and 1 year of age, giving researchers an important new line of inquiry.

Although SIDS, as the syndrome became known, was the leading killer of infants less than a year old, its cause was unknown.

They had begun by studying SIDS, or sudden infant death syndrome, and had theorized that it might be caused by the infants literally being unable to breathe while they slept.

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