Farooqi S
University Department of Medicine, Dudley Road Hospital, UK.
Early Hum Dev. 1994 Sep 15;38(3):209-13. doi: 10.1016/0378-3782(94)90213-5.
Certain infant care practices have consistently been shown to play an important role in the aetiology of the sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). In the UK, the incidence of SIDS amongst Asians is less than half that of whites. We conducted a questionnaire-based survey of 374 multiparous mothers from a multiracial community in Birmingham. We found that the majority of Asian infants slept in the parental bedroom at night, 94% compared to 61% of whites, whilst 33% of white infants slept alone compared to 4% of Asians. Three times as many white mothers as Asians placed infants prone (31% vs. 11%). We, therefore, observed marked differences in the infant care practices of Asians compared to whites in the UK, which may partly account for the low incidence of SIDS amongst infants of Asian origin.
某些婴儿护理方式一直被证明在婴儿猝死综合征（SIDS）的病因中起着重要作用。在英国，亚洲裔婴儿中SIDS的发病率不到白人的一半。我们对伯明翰一个多种族社区的374名经产妇进行了问卷调查。我们发现，大多数亚洲裔婴儿晚上睡在父母的卧室里，这一比例为94%，而白人婴儿的这一比例为61%，同时，33%的白人婴儿独自睡觉，而亚洲裔婴儿的这一比例为4%。让婴儿趴着睡的白人母亲数量是亚洲裔母亲的三倍（31%对11%）。因此，我们观察到，在英国，亚洲裔与白人在婴儿护理方式上存在显著差异，这可能部分解释了亚洲裔婴儿中SIDS发病率较低的原因。
