Febrile convulsions and sudden infant death syndrome.

Vestergaard, M; Basso, O; Henriksen, T B; Østergaard, J; Olsen, J · Arch Dis Child · 2002

case_control · Level III

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Abstract

It has been suggested that sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and febrile convulsions are related aetiologically. We compared the risk of SIDS in 9877 siblings of children who had had febrile convulsions with that of 20 177 siblings of children who had never had febrile convulsions. We found no support for the shared susceptibility hypothesis.

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