Cardiac Ion Channelopathies and the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

Figure 2

Rate of SIDS, expressed as the number of SIDS cases per 1,000 live births, over the period from 1986 to 2010 in the United States (orange solid line with squares), England and Wales (blue solid line with circles), and The Netherlands (green solid line with diamonds). Data on SIDS rate for the United States as in Figure 1. Data for England and Wales from Hauck and Tanabe [13] (1990–2005), completed with data for 2006 and 2007 from the International Society for the Study and Prevention of Perinatal and Infant Death (ISPID), as provided on the ISPID public access website (http://www.ispid.org/statistics.html). Data for The Netherlands from Statistics Netherlands (Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek, CBS), as provided on the CBS public access website (http://www.cbs.nl/).