Researchers identified metabolic markers from routine newborn screenings that were associated with sudden infant death syndrome and built a model that could predict the probability of SIDS, according to a study published in JAMA Pediatrics.
“The objective of this study was to evaluate the relationship between SIDS and metabolic markers routinely measured by newborn screening in combination with previously identified risk factors for SIDS,” Scott P. Oltman, MS, an epidemiologist for the California Preterm Birth Initiative at the University of California, San Francisco, and