The relationship between chronic hypoxemia and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) has been reported by several authors. In order to study the influence of the apnea-time during a sleep state on transcutaneous oxygen tension (tcPO2), we have studied polygraphically 30 full-term infants (10 controls, 10 SIDS siblings and 10 near-miss for SIDS), aged from 5 to 13 weeks. No significant difference was observed either for apnea-time or tcPO2 between infant-groups studied in different sleep states. We could not find any correlation between apnea-time and tcPO2 in all groups of infants studied during different states of sleep. It is therefore concluded that in normal and at risk for SIDS infants, tcPO2 levels during sleep states cannot be explained only by the apnea-time.
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