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Febrile convulsions and sudden infant death syndrome
M Vestergaard1, O Basso, T B Henriksen
1Perinatal Epidemiological Research Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, DK-8200 Aarhus N, Denmark. mv@dadlnet.dk
Archives of Disease in Childhood
|February 6, 2002
Abstract:
It has been suggested that sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and febrile convulsions are related aetiologically. We compared the risk of SIDS in 9877 siblings of children who had had febrile convulsions with that of 20 177 siblings of children who had never had febrile convulsions. We found no support for the shared susceptibility hypothesis.