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| Mechtild M VennemannSummaryAffiliation: University Hospital Country: Germany Publications
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Do immunisations reduce the risk for SIDS? A meta-analysisM M T Vennemann
Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Munster, Roentgenstrasse 23, 48129 Munster, Germany
Vaccine 25:4875-9. 2007..There are claims that immunisations cause sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), but some studies have found either no association or that they are associated with a reduced risk of SIDS...
Cytokines and sudden infant deathMechtild M T Vennemann
Institute of Legal Medicine, University Hospital Munster, Röntgenstr 23, 48149, Munster, Germany
Int J Legal Med 126:279-84. 2012..It has been hypothesised that inflammatory reactions could play an important role in the pathway(s) leading to sudden and unexpected death in infancy. On a molecular level, these reactions are regulated by various cytokines...
Does breastfeeding reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome?M M Vennemann
PD, University of Munster, Institute of Legal Medicine, Röntgenstrasse 23, D 48149 Munster, Germany
Pediatrics 123:e406-10. 2009..In the last 20 years, the prevention campaigns to reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome were very successful. In some countries the advice to breastfeed is included in the campaigns' messages, but in other countries it is not...
The association between smoking and smell and taste impairment in the general populationMechtild M Vennemann
Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Munster, Munster, Germany
J Neurol 255:1121-6. 2008..The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of smoking on taste and smell impairment in a large population- based study...
Do risk factors differ between explained sudden unexpected death in infancy and sudden infant death syndrome?M Vennemann
Institute for Legal Medicine, University of Munster, Munster, Germany
Arch Dis Child 92:133-6. 2007..However, 394 babies die every year suddenly and unexpectedly. The cause may be immediately clear, but is often not obvious...
Sleep environment risk factors for sudden infant death syndrome: the German Sudden Infant Death Syndrome StudyMechtild M Vennemann
Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Munster, Röntgenstrasse 23, D 48149 Munster, Germany
Pediatrics 123:1162-70. 2009..Our goal was to investigate the risk factors for sudden infant death syndrome in the infants' sleep environment for a population in which few infants sleep prone as a result of education campaigns...
Bed sharing and the risk of sudden infant death syndrome: can we resolve the debate?Mechtild M Vennemann
Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Munster, Munster, Germany
J Pediatr 160:44-8.e2. 2012..To conduct a meta-analysis on the relationship between bed sharing and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) risk...
Prone sleeping position increases the risk of SIDS in the day more than at nightE A Mitchell
Department of Paediatrics, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Acta Paediatr 97:584-9. 2008..SIDS mortality is higher during the night than in the day...
Are autopsies of help to the parents of SIDS victims? A follow-up on SIDS familiesM M T Vennemann
Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Munster, Röntgenstrasse 23, 48149 Munster, Germany
Int J Legal Med 120:352-4. 2006..We conclude that the autopsy is helpful to the majority of bereaved parents. Professional help and self-help groups should be offered to the parents even if the majority in our study did not want to use either...
Infection, health problems, and health care utilisation, and the risk of sudden infant death syndromeM M T Vennemann
Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Munster, Germany
Arch Dis Child 90:520-2. 2005..To examine whether symptoms suggestive of infection, health problems, and health care utilisation are risk factors for SIDS...
Sudden infant death syndrome: no increased risk after immunisationM M T Vennemann
Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Munster, and Children s Hospital, University of Magdeburg, Germany
Vaccine 25:336-40. 2007....
