Maternal smoking may alter the arousal process of infants, increasing their risk for SIDS
Wednesday, April 1, 2009 - 09:21
in Health & Medicine
A study in the 1 April issue of the journal SLEEP shows that maternal smoking is associated with an impaired infant arousal process that may increase the risk for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). The authors suggest that maternal smoking has replaced stomach sleeping as the greatest modifiable risk factor for SIDS...
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