| HOME | HELP | FEEDBACK | SUBSCRIPTIONS | ARCHIVE | SEARCH | TABLE OF CONTENTS | REGISTER |
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||
a Department of
Paediatrics, Sahlgrenska University Hospital/Östra, S-416 85 Göteborg, Sweden, b The Medical Birth Registry of Norway,
N-5021 Bergen, Norway, c The Danish Institute for Clinical
Epidemiology, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark, d Department
of Paediatrics, Karolinska Hospital, S-17176 Stockholm, Sweden
Correspondence to: Dr Alm.
Accepted 8 March 1999
OBJECTIVE
To assess
whether alcohol and caffeine are independent risk factors for sudden
infant death syndrome (SIDS).
MATERIALS AND
METHODSAnalyses based on data from the Nordic
epidemiological SIDS study, a case control study in which all parents
of SIDS victims in the Nordic countries from 1 September 1992 to 31 August 1995 were invited to participate with parents of four controls,
matched for sex and age at death. Odds ratios (ORs) were calculated by conditional logistic regression analysis.
RESULTSThe crude ORs
for caffeine consumption > 800 mg/24 hours both during and after
pregnancy were significantly raised: 3.9 (95% confidence interval
(CI), 1.9 to 8.1) and 3.1 (95% CI, 1.5 to 6.3), respectively. However,
after adjustment for maternal smoking in 1st trimester, maternal age,
education and parity, no significant effect of caffeine during or after
pregnancy remained. For maternal or paternal alcohol use, no
significant risk increase was found after adjusting for social
variables, except for heavy postnatal intake of alcohol by the mother,
where the risk was significantly increased.
CONCLUSIONSCaffeine
during or after pregnancy was not found to be an independent risk
factor for SIDS after adjustment for maternal age, education, parity,
and smoking during pregnancy. Heavy postnatal but not prenatal intake
of alcohol by the mother increased the risk.
This article has been cited by other articles:
|
|
 |
|
  S. A. King-Hele, K. M. Abel, R. T. Webb, P. B. Mortensen, L. Appleby, and A. R. Pickles Risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome With Parental Mental Illness Arch Gen Psychiatry, November 1, 2007; 64(11): 1323 - 1330. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
 |
|
 B Alm, P Mollborg, L Erdes, R Pettersson, N Aberg, G Norvenius, and G Wennergren SIDS risk factors and factors associated with prone sleeping in Sweden Arch. Dis. Child., November 1, 2006; 91(11): 915 - 919. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
 |
|
 T. Shah, K. Sullivan, and J. Carter Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Reported Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy Am J Public Health, October 1, 2006; 96(10): 1757 - 1759. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
 |
|
 M. B. Bracken, E. W. Triche, K. Belanger, K. Hellenbrand, and B. P. Leaderer Association of Maternal Caffeine Consumption with Decrements in Fetal Growth Am. J. Epidemiol., March 1, 2003; 157(5): 456 - 466. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
 |
|
 S. Iyasu, L. L. Randall, T. K. Welty, J. Hsia, H. C. Kinney, F. Mandell, M. McClain, B. Randall, D. Habbe, H. Wilson, et al. Risk Factors for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Among Northern Plains Indians JAMA, December 4, 2002; 288(21): 2717 - 2723. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
U. Kesmodel, K. Wisborg, S. F. Olsen, T. B. Henriksen, and N. J. Secher Moderate Alcohol Intake during Pregnancy and the Risk of Stillbirth and Death in the First Year of Life Am. J. Epidemiol., February 15, 2002; 155(4): 305 - 312. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
B Alm, S G Norvenius, G Wennergren, R Skjærven, N Øyen, J Milerad, M Wennborg, J Kjaerbeck, K Helweg-Larsen, and L M Irgens Changes in the epidemiology of sudden infant death syndrome in Sweden 1973-1996 Arch. Dis. Child., January 1, 2001; 84(1): 24 - 30. [Abstract] [Full Text]
|
|
| HOME | HELP | FEEDBACK | SUBSCRIPTIONS | ARCHIVE | SEARCH | TABLE OF CONTENTS | REGISTER |
| ARCH DIS CHILD | FETAL NEONATAL ED | ED PRACTICE |
