Sudden infant death syndrome and maternal smoking

Am J Public Health. 1992 Oct;82(10):1380-2. doi: 10.2105/ajph.82.10.1380.

Abstract

Data from Missouri for the period 1980 to 1985 suggest a dose-response relationship between smoking during pregnancy and the incidence of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). However, data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development SIDS Cooperative Epidemiological Study did not support a dose-response relationship. Neither the Missouri data nor the Cooperative Study data support a relationship between the age of occurrence of SIDS and smoking during pregnancy.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Age Factors
  • Birth Certificates
  • Case-Control Studies
  • Databases, Factual / statistics & numerical data
  • Death Certificates
  • Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Incidence
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Medical Record Linkage
  • Missouri / epidemiology
  • National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
  • Odds Ratio
  • Pregnancy / statistics & numerical data
  • Risk Factors
  • Smoking / adverse effects*
  • Smoking / epidemiology
  • Sudden Infant Death / epidemiology*
  • Sudden Infant Death / etiology
  • Sweden / epidemiology
  • United States / epidemiology