Percentage of babies placed to sleep on their backs levels off

Tuesday, December 8, 2009 - 07:07 in Psychology & Sociology

The rate of babies being placed on their backs to sleep - a sleep position associated with a dramatic decrease in the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) - has reached a plateau since 2001, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. In addition, racial disparities remain in infant sleeping position...

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