Newborn Hearing Test May Predict SIDS

[Ivan Seeking]

...We've found for the first time that there's something going on in the hearing of SIDS babies," he says. "This is totally new and we've never had this before."

His study found that the group of newborns who later died from SIDS shared the same hearing tests results. The scores, reflecting inner ear function, were significantly lower in the right ear than in the left, something not usually seen in healthy infants. [continued]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/07/30/eveningnews/main3115525.shtml

...The findings don't prove that hearing tests will identify babies at risk for SIDS. So the researchers plan further studies to investigate what they describe as a "potential association" between inner ear damage and breathing control.[continued]

http://children.webmd.com/news/20070727/newborn-hearing-test-may-predict-sids

 

[BoomBoom]

Hmmm, I was under the assumption that SIDS was caused by ignorant doctors in the 60's and 70's telling new mothers that they should put their babies face-down to sleep and they were suffocating. Didn't SIDS cases drop in the 80's and 90's?

Of course, I could be the ignorant one...