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Arch Dis Child 2002;86:125-126 doi:10.1136/adc.86.2.125
  • Acute paediatrics

Febrile convulsions and sudden infant death syndrome

  1. M Vestergaard1,
  2. O Basso2,
  3. T B Henriksen1,
  4. J Østergaard3,
  5. J Olsen2
  1. 1Perinatal Epidemiological Research Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, DK-8200 Aarhus N, Denmark
  2. 2The Danish Epidemiology Science Center at the Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Aarhus, Denmark
  3. 3Department of Paediatrics, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, Denmark
  1. Correspondence to:
    Dr M Vestergaard, Perinatal Epidemiological Research Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, DK-8200 Aarhus N, Denmark;
    mv{at}dadlnet.dk
  • Accepted 22 November 2001

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.

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