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CLINICAL REVIEW ARTICLE: Is changing the sleep environment enough? Current recommendations for SIDS

Overview of attention for article published in Sleep Medicine Reviews, October 2000
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  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (71st percentile)

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Title
CLINICAL REVIEW ARTICLE: Is changing the sleep environment enough? Current recommendations for SIDS
Published in
Sleep Medicine Reviews, October 2000
DOI 10.1053/smrv.2000.0119
Pubmed ID
Authors

Alistair J Gunn, Tania R Gunn, Edwin A Mitchell

Abstract

Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS or cot death) was the major cause of post-neonatal infant death in many countries in the late 1970s and 1980s. There is now very strong evidence that public intervention campaigns targeting the prone sleeping position, which had been identified by epidemiological studies as a major risk factor, were followed by substantial falls in the rate of SIDS. In the present review we discuss the evidence on which current recommendations for the prevention of SIDS are based. The prone sleeping position is now clearly causally associated with SIDS. Further reductions in SIDS may be produced by recommending the back sleeping position as opposed to the side position. Maternal smoking in pregnancy and bed sharing by infants of mothers who smoke are also strongly associated with SIDS, but have been harder to influence. Paternal smoking has also been implicated, although the magnitude of the reported risk is small. Finally, breastfeeding, pacifier use and having the infant sharing the parents bedroom, but not the bed, may also reduce risk. Continued reductions in SIDS mortality will require innovative public health education to target these major risk factors, while building on the "back to sleep" approach.

Mendeley readers

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The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 39 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Netherlands 1 3%
Turkey 1 3%
South Africa 1 3%
Unknown 36 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 7 18%
Professor 5 13%
Student > Master 5 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 13%
Other 4 10%
Other 5 13%
Unknown 8 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 15 38%
Nursing and Health Professions 9 23%
Psychology 3 8%
Social Sciences 3 8%
Decision Sciences 1 3%
Other 1 3%
Unknown 7 18%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 May 2018.
All research outputs
#5,446,210
of 25,371,288 outputs
Outputs from Sleep Medicine Reviews
#595
of 1,135 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#6,370
of 38,859 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Sleep Medicine Reviews
#2
of 4 outputs
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