Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Occurs More Frequently In Boys Than In Girls

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Occurs More Frequently In Boys Than In Girls.
Experts have covet known that impetuous infant expiry syndrome (SIDS) is more common in boys than girls, but a new study suggests that gender differences in levels of wakefulness are not to blame. In fact, the researchers found that infant boys are more by far aroused from snore than girls. "Since the incidence of SIDS is increased in male infants, we had expected the masculine infants to be more difficult to arouse from sleep and to have fewer full arousals than the female infants," superior author Rosemary SC Horne, a senior research fellow at the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, said in a statement release.

And "In fact, we found the opposite when infants were younger at two to four weeks of age, and we were surprised to awaken that any differences between the male and female infants were resolved by the maturity of two to three months, which is the most vulnerable age for SIDS". About 60 percent of infants who meet one's Maker from SIDS are male.

In the study, published in the Aug 1, 2010 arise of Sleep, the Australian team tested 50 healthy infants by blowing a advertisement of air into their nostrils in order to wake them from sleep. At two to four weeks of age, the guts of the puff of air needed to arouse the infants was much lower in males than in females. This rest was no longer significant by ages two to three months, when SIDS risk peaks.