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Is this basically suggesting that all SIDS are essentially suffocation (or close to that?)
by Fire-Dragon-DoL 4y ago
Is this basically suggesting that all SIDS are essentially suffocation (or close to that?)
- lazide 4y agoNope, the paper goes into it. It's saying some proportion is, but it's unknown (and likely unknowable) what the actual proportion really is, for a multitude of reasons. It's unlikely to be most. There are a lot of similar issues with mortality data in general, but kids are a particularly sensitive topic. For instamce, a large portion of 'gun cleaning accidents' are suicides. How many has changed with the times and the fashions. It's possible to guesstimate approximately of course, but we'll never really know for sure unless we somehow plunked an invisible researcher over the shoulder of every person all day every day.
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 4y agoThanks for the summary, so there is still a portion that's really unknown. And yes, I suspected it was hard to get proper data