Analysis: Whatever the genetics, parents can reduce the danger - The Times 4th July 2008

Sudden infant death syndrome, or cot death, is by nature unexpected and, at least initally, unexplained: the term is used when an apparently healthy baby dies in its sleep and no obvious cause is found at the post-mortem examination. Several factors are now well known to raise the risk, and this has led to a substantial decline in the incidence of cot death over the past two decades.

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