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Sudden unexplained death in childhood (SUDC) is the death of a child over the age of 12 months which remains unexplained after a thorough investigation and autopsy. There has not been enough research to identify risk factors, common characteristics, or prevention strategies for SUDC. SUDC is similar in concept to sudden infant death syndrome ...
A speculated link between vaccines and SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) has been refuted, [1] but remains a common anti-vaccine claim. [2] The claim, attributed to Robert Mendelsohn in 1991 [3] [non-primary source needed] and promoted by anti-vaccination activists such as Viera Scheibner in the early 1990s, is that vaccines, especially the DTP vaccine that protects against diphtheria ...
Sudden infant death syndrome, the unforeseen and unexplained death of a baby younger than one year old, is by definition a mystery. But researchers are getting closer to understanding some of the ...
SIDS was the third leading cause of death in children less than one year old in the United States in 2011. [15] It is the most common cause of death between one month and one year of age. [1] About 90% of cases happen before six months of age, with it being most frequent between two months and four months of age.
Shaken baby syndrome (SBS), also known as abusive head trauma (AHT), is a controversial and scientifically disputed [4] [5] [6] medical condition in children younger than five years old, [3] hypothesized to be caused by blunt trauma, vigorous shaking, or a combination of both. [4] [1]
SIDS most often refers to sudden infant death syndrome, the sudden unexplained death of a child of less than one year of age. SIDS may also refer to: Screening information dataset, a study of the hazards associated with a particular chemical substance; Small Island Developing States, a group of developing small-island countries
Synthetic lethality is defined as a type of genetic interaction where the combination of two genetic events results in cell death or death of an organism. [1] Although the foregoing explanation is wider than this, it is common when referring to synthetic lethality to mean the situation arising by virtue of a combination of deficiencies of two or more genes leading to cell death (whether by ...
Sudden death of a young person can be caused by heart disease (including cardiomyopathy, congenital heart disease, myocarditis, genetic connective tissue disorders) or conduction disease (WPW syndrome, etc.), medication-related causes or other causes. [13]