There are multiple definitions for SIDS, otherwise known as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. According

There are typically no witnesses and in 50 – 75 percent of all cases, no prior signs of child abuse. Unfortunately, there is no dependable method for collecting statistics and the true number of incidences is unknown. More importantly, it can be difficult to detect especially for mild cases. This syndrome is the most common reason of death and long-term disability in infants and young children. The disorder primarily takes place in children two years old and younger with the average age between three to eight months

          SIDS, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, a leading cause of death in infants under the age of one, has left medical experts unable to clearly define sudden infant death syndrome. After thirty years of research, the medical field has not discovered definite causes for SIDS. Medical experts have suggested many theories that have been studied and debated.

It is every parents’ worst fear to wake up one morning to find that their child has passed away without warning. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), the common name used today is also referred to as Crib Death, which is an unexplained death occurring during sleep of a seemingly healthy baby less than a year old (mayo clinic). Even though there are some ways to prevent SIDS, there is no guarantee that a child is a hundred percent safe. Some ways to prevent SIDS can be done with parental knowledge of how SIDS occurs. Even though the baby has nothing medically wrong, it could be that the parents did something unintentionally by accident or are simply uniformed.

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is a condition that many people still are trying to figure out why it happens to these babies. This syndrome is described as an unexplained death of an infant younger than one year of age. SIDS is frightening because it can strike without warning and affect a good, healthy infant. Most SIDS deaths occur at night and without warning. SIDS victims may have been down for sleep for as little as ten minutes, they show signs of struggle or suffering. Although SIDS is commonly associated with an infants sleep time, and often occurs in the crib. This event is not limited to the crib and may occur anywhere the infant is sleeping, deaths have occurred in

SIDS is actually what the medical term is for deaths of infants that cannot be explained. When an infant dies and there is no explanatory behind why the child has died it is ruled out SIDS. SIDS stands for sudden infant death syndrome. While many people believe that SIDS has a true cause, they are partially right, because with SIDS being stated as the cause of death when the true cause is unknown, there are possible reasons why the baby died that were not found through the autopsy on the infant. The autopsy should be conducted after the infant is considered brain dead. Brain dead is when a person is considered completely dead because there is no more function going on inside

The black infant mortality rate in 2010, (11.8) was similar to the white infant mortality rate in 1980 (11.7); an unbelievable thirty year difference for a balance measure (Florida Vital Statistics Annual Report, 2012). Currently, in the local community of Orange County, Florida the infant mortality rate exceeds that of the US at 7.5, and the rate is also doubled in African American women at 13.5, wheres it is 5.6 for births by white women (Florida Charts, 2014). Per Florida Charts (2014), disorders related to short gestation (pre-term birth – less than 37 weeks of pregnancy) and low birth weight, followed by sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) are the leading causes of infant deaths in African American births in Orange County, which is relative to the rest of the

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome remains the leading cause of post-neonatal mortality (under the age of one) in developed countries. The causes of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome have been puzzling and research is being conducted to solve this catastrophic problem. Having a child under the age of one makes me very concerned, along with any other parent(s), that the possibility of SIDS could affect any infant at anytime, SIDS does not discriminate. I am seeking to find the possible causes to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome so in the future deaths could be avoided.

feeding, sleeping, and crying). Aforementioned, to the birth, withdrawal symptoms may reacts due to cocaine and that keep the mother or child in the hospital for further examination. As a matter of fact, the unborn baby will suffer everything because of what their irresponsible mother does while she was pregnant. As newborn they are the one who suffers from mental retardation, irritable, cranky those even just a soft touch they will cry, have heart problems, birth defect, visual and hearing ¬¬¬¬-problems, or even worse death. In addition, sudden infant death syndromes (SIDS) maybe happen even after giving birth as well. (March of Dimes, 2013, para.9-12)

     When putting it all together the number of lives births each year, SIDS remains the leading cause of death in the United States among infants between one month and one year of age and second only to congenital anomalies as the leading overall cause of death for all infants less than one year of age.

states SIDS as being "the sudden death of any infant or young child which is

Emotional stress, physical over activity and vigorous activity in a person having coronary artery disease can precipitate SCD due to ischemia [84, 123-126] (Figure-3). Regular exercise is associated with the long term reduction in risk of SCD [127-132]. Significant reductions in the risk of SCD with both moderate and vigorous exercise was found by British Regional Heart Study [133] and the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial-6 but no relationship between physical activity and SCD was found in The Framingham Study [134-135]. Many retrospective and cross-sectional studies has suggested the association of vigorous exercise or activity with SCD but a prospective study by Albert et al [22] showed that transient bouts of vigorous activity is

Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is the diagnosis for any infant in which the cause of death cannot be determined. This is a broadly researched topic and yet no definitive conclusion can be made on the cause and mechanisms that structure this disease. The Center of Disease and Control (CDC) has reported that over 4,000 infant deaths are of unknown cause each year [1] and defined as SIDS. This equates to a 1 in 3 ratio of all infant deaths being associated to SIDS. SIDS is characterized by death of infants ranging in age from 1- 12 months of age. It is expected that some infants pass in their sleep due to accidental suffocation, heat and lack of air circulation, or limited health resources due to socioeconomic status, as experimented by Hoffman

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is defined as sudden death of an infant less than 1 year of age that is unexplained by history, and unexplained by postmortem explanation including an autopsy (Hunt, &Hauck, 2006). SIDS is the leading cause of death within the first year of life in the developed world (Vennenman et al., 2009). In the west, the yearly incidence of sudden death is 1.3-7.5 per 100,000 in the pediatric population beyond infancy (Mei-Hwan, 2010). In order to find a correlation between SIDS and breastfeeding, a German study was conducted. The study concluded that exclusive breastfeeding was correlated with reduction in SIDS rather than partial feeding, which on its own was associated with decrease in SIDS compared to not breastfeeding.

SUDDEN INFANT DEATH (SIDS) is the term used to describe the sudden and unexpected death of a healthy baby or toddler that is initially unexplained. It is sometime called as 'Cot or Crib death' beacause infants often die in their cot or cribs.

Several studies have suggested that PDA occurs in premature babies due to the lungs being underdeveloped and poor metabolizers of prostaglandins. Other risk factors that may be associated with an infant having a PDA is a positive family history of cardiac defects and genetically linked conditions like Down syndrome. Maternal infection with German measles during pregnancy can cause damaging effects to the fetal heart and circulatory system and put the infant at greater risk of acquiring a PDA. Studies have also shown that children born at higher altitudes have an increased susceptibility of having a PDA.