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Cot death occurs when a seemingly healthy infant – under 12 months of age – dies in their sleep with no cause of death established in a post-mortem investigation. Although many risk factors are known to increase the risk of cot death – such as maternal smoking and bed sharing – nobody is exactly sure why it happens.<ref name="MedicalXpress 2019"/>
The incidence of SIDS is higher in male infants as compared with female infants,<ref name="nih2017" /> with a ratio of 60 male deaths to 40 female deaths.<ref name="nih2017elhaick2016">{REFjournal |last=Elhaik |first=Eran |author-link= |etal=no |title=A "wear and tear" hypothesis to explain Sudden Infant Death Syndrome |trans-title= |languageEnglish= |journal=Frontiers in Neurology |location= |date=2016-10 |volume=7 |issue= |pages= |url= |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=27840622 |pubmedCID=5083856 |DOI=10.3389/fneur.2016.00180. |accessdate=2020-07-07}}</ref>
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