Article Text

Prolonged QTc interval as an important factor in sudden infant death syndrome
  1. C WREN
  1. Department of Paediatric Cardiology
  2. Freeman Hospital, High Heaton
  3. Newcastle upon Tyne NE7 7DN, UK

    Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    Editor,—Dr Davies’s comments on the relation between QT prolongation and sudden infant death1 are based on accepting the report by Schwartz et al at face value.2 In that paper 9725 of 34 442 ECGs recorded over 19 years were analysed. Twenty four infants had unexplained sudden death and their ECGs were analysed retrospectively to show …

    View Full Text