BMJ  2006;332 (7 January), doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7532.0-a

Use of a dummy is associated with reduced risk of SIDS

Infants who died of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) were less likely to sleep with dummies (pacifiers) in their mouths than controls. Li and colleagues (p 18) carried out a population based case-control study with mothers or caretakers of 185 babies whose deaths were attributed to the syndrome and 312 randomly selected controls matched for race, ethnicity, and age. After known confounders were adjusted for, the odds ratio for SIDS in infants who used a dummy during their last sleep was 0.08 (95% CI 0.03 to 0.21) compared with infants not given dummies. Use of a dummy may reduce the influence of known risk factors in the sleep environment, say the authors.

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