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A team of Australian researchers has discovered a biochemical marker in the blood that could help identify and prevent newborns at risk for sudden infant death syndrome.
According to the study published in the journal "The Lancet Epibio Medicine", researchers found that children who died due to sudden infant death syndrome had
Lower levels of butyrylcholinesterase (BCHE) shortly after birth, which plays a key role in the wakefulness pathway in the brain, and lower levels would reduce a sleeping infant's ability to wake up or respond to its environment.
"This is the first evidence that babies who succumb to sudden infant death syndrome are different from birth," said lead study author Dr Carmel Harrington of Children's Hospital Westmead in Australia. parents".
The Sydney Children's Hospital Network in Australia considered this discovery "a first of its kind in the world", but other experts said that researchers are still "only halfway" to achieving the goal of fully understanding SIDS and being able to prevent it, according to the New England Journal. of Medicine".
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