A Unifying Theory for SIDS
The Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) has four distinctive characteristics that must be explained by any theory proposed for it. (1) A characteristic male fraction of approximately 0.61 for all postneonatal SIDS in the US; (2) a distinctive lognormal-type age distribution arising from zero at bir...
Main Authors: | David T. Mage, Maria Donner |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Hindawi Limited
2009-01-01
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Series: | International Journal of Pediatrics |
Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/368270 |
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