{"id":7108,"date":"2007-07-05T18:17:04","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T18:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchspressroom.wordpress.com\/2007\/07\/05\/sudden-infant-death-syndrome\/"},"modified":"2007-07-05T18:17:04","modified_gmt":"2007-07-05T18:17:04","slug":"sudden-infant-death-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2007\/07\/05\/7108\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudden Infant Death Syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/SIDS\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is defined as the sudden death of an infant less than one year of age that cannot be explained after a thorough case investigation is conducted, including a complete autopsy, examination of the death scene, and review of the clinical history.<\/p>\n<p>SIDS is the leading cause of death among infants aged 1 to 12 months, and is the third leading cause overall of infant mortality in the United States. Although the overall rate of SIDS in the United States has declined by more than 50% since 1990, rates have declined less among non-Hispanic Black and American Indian\/Alaska Native infants. Preventing SIDS remains an important public health priority.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Data on SIDS from National Center for Health Statistics mortality reports document the decline of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nchspressroom.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/07\/sids.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\">SIDS as a cause of death<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is defined as the sudden death of an infant less than one year of age that cannot be explained after a thorough case investigation is conducted, including a complete autopsy, examination of the death scene, and review of the clinical history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14289,49481,47334,63685,63773,53751,53759],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}