MCQ MAHE 2000 Forensic Medicine Answer 03
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SIDS has been linked etiologically in research studies to prone sleep position, sleeping on a soft surface, maternal smoking during or after pregnancy, overheating, late or no prenatal care, young maternal age, prematurity, low birth weight, and male gender.
- Infant's age: less than 4 months old
- Low birth weight
- History of SIDS death in a sibling
- Previous incident of severe apnea, requiring resuscitation
- Sleeping on the stomach or side rather than back
- Other risk factors are more general and include:
- Mother's age: younger than 20 during first pregnancy
- Poverty, especially in black and Native American families
- Sex: male
- Smoking during pregnancy or in a house where the baby is sleeping
- Opiate or cocaine use during pregnancy
- History of anemia or a urinary tract infection while pregnant
- No or late prenatal care
- Premature birth
- Recent infection and/or fever
- Cold weather in late fall or winter
- Overheating
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