Publication Date:
1981-08-28
Description:
The normal succession of sleep and waking states through a night is disturbed in infants at risk for the sudden infant death syndrome. Compared with normal infants, siblings of the sudden infant death syndrome victims have longer intervals between active sleep epochs at particular times during the night in the newborn period and a decreased tendency to enter short waking periods at 2 and 3 months of age. The latter finding is interpreted as an increased tendency to remain asleep, or a relative failure to arouse from sleep in infants at risk.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Harper, R M -- Leake, B -- Hoffman, H -- Walter, D O -- Hoppenbrouwers, T -- Hodgman, J -- Sterman, M B -- HD-2-2777/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- HD4-2810/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- R01 HD 14608-01/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1981 Aug 28;213(4511):1030-2.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7268406" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Age Factors
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Humans
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Infant
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Infant, Newborn
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Periodicity
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Risk
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Sleep/*physiology
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Sudden Infant Death/*physiopathology
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Wakefulness
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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