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Questionnaire-based screening for SIDS risk factors was performed amid the parents of symptom-free, healthy infants and SIDS parents in Budapest. The survey was aimed to investigate the risk factors and states of SIDS, including current health damages, and to provide assistance to the identification of infants at higher risk. The identical questionnaire was used for the interviews with the SIDS parents /No 14/ and the parents of healthy infants /No 100/. Risk factors of SIDS were surveyed including questions about the environment /social and health/ of the including perinatal and infant factors, habits of caring, previous diseases. Tests on nasopharyngeal bacterial flora of the healthy infants were also tested. The degree of risk for the infants was measured by the number of previous and current risk factors. The groups /low, medium, high/ indicated the degree of risk. The outcome of our survey showed that infants in unfavorable social and economic environment / living in mass housing, infants with low birth weight or twin, and infants exposed to drugs, smoking or narcotics during gestation, having young unmarried mother/ are at risk for SIDS. The information feedback to the concerned family doctors and health visitors will be the basis of an increased attention payed to the future care of these infants.

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