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Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is a legacy term referring to the sudden, unexplained death of an infant under one year of age, typically during sleep. The modern preferred terminology is 'Sudden Unexpected Infant Death' (SUID), which includes SIDS as a subset along with other explained and unexplained causes. SIDS remains a diagnosis of exclusion after thorough investigation fails to identify a cause.
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