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The American Academy of Pediatrics now recommends that infants be put to sleep on their back instead of on their side or stomach.<ref name="feldman-winter2016">{{REFjournal | |||
|last= Feldman-Winter | |||
|first=Lori | |||
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|title=Safe sleep and skin-to-skin care in the neonatal period for healthy term newborns | |||
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|journal=Pediatrics | |||
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|date=2016-10 | |||
|volume=138 | |||
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|pages=2016-1889 | |||
|url=https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/138/3/e20161889 | |||
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|DOI=https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2016-1889 | |||
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}}</ref> While this has reduced the incidence of SIDS somewhat, it certainly has not eliminated it. | |||
==The allostasis hypothesis== | ==The allostasis hypothesis== | ||
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Elhaick observes that the SIDS rate in the UK where the NHS does not perform non-therapeutic circumcision is 0.38 per 1000 as compared with the US rate of 0.55 per 1000 where most male infants are circumcised.<ref name="elhaick2016" /> | Elhaick observes that the SIDS rate in the UK where the NHS does not perform non-therapeutic circumcision is 0.38 per 1000 as compared with the US rate of 0.55 per 1000 where most male infants are circumcised.<ref name="elhaick2016" /> | ||
==Evidence of association with circumcision== | |||
{{SEEALSO}} | {{SEEALSO}} | ||