Moore A
Br J Hosp Med. 1981 Jul;26(1):37-45.
Recent research has defined a group of infants with certain characteristics who may be prone to sudden unexpected death, but no single criterion has yet been found that can be used to identify the victim before or after death. Although the aetiology of SIDS remains a mystery, it seems likely that certain stresses such as infection, overheating, and environmental or nutritional deprivation in a vulnerable group of infants may combine at a critical period of development to cause death by respiratory arrest. Some of these deaths may be prevented by raising the general standard of care for the whole infant population, improving health education, and increasing the surveillance of high risk groups. There remains a hard core of infants for whom the stresses appear minimal and the environment optimal but in the present state of our knowledge their death seems unavoidable.
最近的研究已经确定了一组具有某些特征的婴儿，他们可能容易发生意外猝死，但尚未找到单一标准可用于在死亡前后识别受害者。尽管婴儿猝死综合征的病因仍是个谜，但在一组易患病的婴儿中，某些压力因素，如感染、过热以及环境或营养缺乏，似乎可能在发育的关键时期共同作用，导致呼吸骤停而死亡。通过提高全体婴儿的总体护理水平、改善健康教育以及加强对高危群体的监测，其中一些死亡是可以预防的。仍有一小部分婴儿，他们所承受的压力似乎极小，环境也很理想，但就我们目前的认知状况而言，他们的死亡似乎难以避免。
