Composite Baby Check score of SIDS cases and control infants in the last 24 hours according to age
| Score | Younger infants (< 101 days) | Older infants (> 100 days) | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SIDS | Controls | Age adjusted OR (95% CI) | SIDS | Controls | Age adjusted OR (95% CI) | ||||||||||||||
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | ||||||||||||
| 0–7 | 137 | 81.1 | 654 | 94.0 | 1.00 (reference group) | 113 | 75.8 | 548 | 90.9 | 1.00 (reference group) | |||||||||
| 8–12 | 18 | 10.7 | 19 | 2.7 | 7.20 (2.98 to 17.41) | 14 | 9.4 | 33 | 5.5 | 2.61 (1.25 to 5.46) | |||||||||
| 13–19 | 11 | 6.5 | 13 | 1.9 | 4.87 (1.74 to 13.61) | 8 | 5.4 | 14 | 2.3 | 3.51 (1.31 to 9.37) | |||||||||
| 20+ | 3 | 1.8 | 10 | 1.4 | 1.19 (0.26 to 5.41) | 14 | 9.4 | 8 | 1.3 | 6.84 (2.50 to 18.71) | |||||||||
Younger infants comprised 169 SIDS cases and 696 controls; older infants comprised 149 SIDS cases and 603 controls.
CI, confidence interval; OR, odds ratio; SIDS, sudden infant death syndrome.