PEDIATRICS Vol. 107 No. 4 April 2001, pp. 809
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To the Editor.
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Task Force on Infant
Sleep Position and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) has identified a
number of risk factors for SIDS, including prone sleeping, SIDS among
siblings, infanticide, and cardiac arrhythmias.1 However,
one important and preventable risk factor was omitted. This factor, a