Bottle feeding and the sudden infant death syndrome

• Published in: BMJ 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
• Language: English
• 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

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...