{"id":20884,"date":"2025-01-27T17:38:17","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T18:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=20884"},"modified":"2025-01-27T19:29:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T19:29:00","slug":"sudden-infant-death-rates-increased-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=20884","title":{"rendered":"Sudden Infant Death Rates Increased, Study Says"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A new study found that U.S. infant mortality rates overall are dropping, but that rates of sudden unexpected infant death may have increased in recent years.<\/p>\n

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Rates of sudden unexpected infant death in the United States increased by nearly 12 percent from 2020 to 2022, according to new research<\/a> published on Monday in the journal JAMA Pediatrics.<\/p>\n

Though the study offered some good news \u2014 overall infant mortality rates dropped by 24 percent from 1999 to 2022 \u2014 it also raised questions about why more babies appear to be dying during sleep, and why rates of sleep-related death remain notably higher among Black, Native American and Pacific Islander babies than among white and Asian infants.<\/p>\n

Dr. Elizabeth Wolf, an associate professor of pediatrics with Children\u2019s Hospital of Richmond at Virginia Commonwealth University who was among the new study\u2019s authors, called the findings \u201cpretty alarming.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe death of an infant from SIDS or SUID is unbelievably horrific,\u201d Dr. Wolf continued, using two acronyms that describe sleep-related deaths among infants. \u201cAnd we as a public health community need to do everything we can to try and reduce the risk factors as much as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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