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How Pathophysiology Explains Risk and Protective Factors

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It is currently believed that babies die suddenly and unexpectedly during sleep when they fail to respond appropriately to a life-threatening challenge. The major risk factors, which include prone sleeping, head covering, exposure to cigarette smoke, and being born prematurely, all impair cardiorespiratory control and depress arousal responses from sleep. Conversely, those factors that reduce the risk, including breastfeeding, immunization, and sucking on a pacifier, increase these protective responses. Understanding the physiological mechanisms that likely underpin risk and protective factors is important so that parents and health professionals are aware that safe sleeping messages are supported by sound physiological evidence.

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