Bottle feeding and the sudden infant death syndrome

In New Zealand women in all social strata breast feed. [...]even when adjustments for socioeconomic variables were made, the New Zealand cot death study showed that bottle feeding was associated with the sudden infant death syndrome. 2 In Gilbert and colleagues' study, for control infants, &quo...

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Published inBMJ Vol. 310; no. 6986; pp. 1070 - 1071
Main Authors Tappin, D. M., Walker-Smith, J. A., Gilbert, Ruth, Wigfield, Ruth, Fleming, Peter, Berry, Jem, Rudd, Peter
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London British Medical Association 22.04.1995
BMJ Publishing Group LTD
Subjects
Babies
Bottle feeding
Bottles
Breastfeeding
Breastfeeding & lactation
Confidence intervals
Health risk assessment
Hospital units
Letters
Milk hypersensitivity
Neighborhoods
Pediatrics
Preventive medicine
SIDS
Socioeconomic factors
Socioeconomic status
Sudden death
Sudden infant death syndrome
New Zealand
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Summary:In New Zealand women in all social strata breast feed. [...]even when adjustments for socioeconomic variables were made, the New Zealand cot death study showed that bottle feeding was associated with the sudden infant death syndrome. 2 In Gilbert and colleagues' study, for control infants, "The health visitor was asked to identify two infants living in the same neighbourhood."
ISSN:0959-8138
1468-5833
1756-1833
DOI:10.1136/bmj.310.6986.1070b