Letters to the editor
 | Use of duvets and SIDS |
| Reply to letter |
Use of duvets and SIDS
| The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below. |
EDITOR,
In the paper by Mitchell
et al the use of duvets was associated with
sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) on univariate (odds ratio 1.65 (95% confidence interval 1.31, 2.08)) but not multivariate analysis,
and the SIDS risk associated with duvet use was not modified by
sleeping position.1 These findings contrast with our
finding of a strong association (adjusted odds ratio 6.16 (2.01, 18.87)) between quilt (duvet) use and SIDS among non-prone
infants.2
Mitchell et al postulated that one reason
for the discrepancy may be that our Tasmanian study had not controlled
for socioeconomic factors. We did, in fact, adjust for a large number
of additional potential confounders that could not be listed in the
short report due to space limitations. We found that adjustment for
unemployment, maternal education, or maternal parity did not alter the
association between duvet use and SIDS among non-prone infants. We
agree that the conflicting findings may
CiteULike 
Complore 
Connotea 
Del.icio.us 
Digg 
Reddit 
Technorati What's this?
- Full Text
- Submit a response
- Alert me when this article is cited
- Alert me when eLetters are posted
- Alert me if a correction is posted
- Citation Map
Services
- Email this link to a friend
- Similar articles in ADC Online
- Add article to my folders
- Download to citation manager
- Request Permissions
Citing Articles
Google Scholar
PubMed
Bookmark with
Register for free content
The full back archive is now available for all BMJ Journals. Institutional subscribers may access the entire archive as part of their subscription. Personal subscribers will also have access to all content when logged in. Non-subscribers who register have free access to all articles published before 2006 right back to volume 1 issue 1. Register here to access the free archive of all BMJ Journals.
Don't forget to sign up for content alerts so you keep up to date with all the articles as they are published.
