On The First Day Of New Year Kills More Babies Than Any Other Day

On The First Day Of New Year Kills More Babies Than Any Other Day.
A remodelled inspect finds that more babies pass away of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) in the United States on New Year's Day than any other daytime of the year. It's not clear why, but researchers suspect it has something to do with parents who gulp heavily the night before and put their children in jeopardy. "Alcohol-influenced adults are less able to protect children in their care. We're saying the same sentiment is happening with SIDS: They're also less likely to protect the baby from it," said scrutiny author David Phillips, a sociologist. "It seems as if alcohol is a gamble factor. We just need to find out what makes it a risk factor".

SIDS kills an estimated 2500 babies in the United States each year. Some researchers characterize genetic problems donate to most cases, with the risk boosted when babies sleep on their stomachs. Phillips is a professor of sociology at the University of California at San Diego who studies when such deaths happen and why.

He said he became offbeat how the choices made by parents may stir SIDS and launched the new study, which appears in the current issue of the fortnightly Addiction. Researchers analyzed a database of 129090 deaths from SIDS from 1973-2006 and 295151 other infant deaths during that span period. They found that the highest number of deaths from SIDS occur on New Year's Day: They nail by almost a third above the number of deaths that would be expected on a winter day.