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Study highlights need to discourage maternal smoking

Sudden deaths in babies enrolled on a community-based programme, Care of Next Infant Plus (CONI PLUS), showed avoidable risk factors mostly associated with smoking and place of sleep. 

Sudden deaths in babies enrolled on a community-based programme, Care of Next Infant Plus (CONI PLUS), showed avoidable risk factors mostly associated with smoking and place of sleep. The report, published in Archives of Disease in Childhood, documents the outcome of over 6,000 babies enrolled on CONI PLUS; a programme providing extra support to families with young babies. Families are enrolled for a variety of reasons including those whose extended families have experienced the sudden and unexpected death of a baby or toddler or whose babies experience an apparently life threatening event (ALTE). Overall, the numbers of deaths were small,

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