Failure to detect elevated levels of carboxyhemoglobin in infants dying from SIDS |
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Authors: | Meny Robert G Vreman Hendrik J Stevenson David K Hauck Fern R Donoghue Edmund R Smialek John E Fowler David R Zielke H Ronald |
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Affiliation: | Department of Pediatrics, University of Maryland, Baltimore 21201, USA. |
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Abstract: | Carboxyhemoglobin (COHb) levels were determined in stored blood samples from 91 infants diagnosed to have died from the sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) (0.59+/-0.41%, excluding one outlying value of 10.83%); 48 age-matched controls (0.53+/-0.38%); and three individuals who died from fire related causes (41+/-20%). No statistical differences in COHb levels were detected between blood from SIDS and control infants (p = 0.43). |
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