Citation

Davies MJ, Rumbold AR. JAMA Pediatr. 2018; 172(9): 886-887.

Affiliation

The Robinson Research Institute, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, American Medical Association)

DOI

10.1001/jamapediatrics.2018.1648

PMID

29987314

Abstract

To the Editor A recent issue of JAMA Pediatrics contained a Research Letter titled “Infant Mortality Due to Unintentional Suffocation Among Infants Younger Than 1 Year in the United States, 1999-2015,” by Gao et al. The authors reported a 1.27-fold increase in mortality during the observed period and state that “the continuous increase of unintentional suffocation from 1999 to 2015 among US infants younger than 12 months is concerning. Our results show that the increase was primarily a result of increases in deaths from suffocation and strangulation in bed.” They conclude that “there is insufficient evidence to interpret the mechanism behind our results." ...

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