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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

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.

  • febrile convulsions
  • sudden infant death syndrome
  • sibling study
  • FC, febrile convulsion
  • HR, hazard ratio
  • SIDS, sudden infant death syndrome

https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.86.2.125

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