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To the Editor: The article by Schwartz and his colleagues (June 11 issue)¹ is the fifth such report by this group implicating prolongation of the QT interval in the sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). However, independent confirmation of their conclusions is still lacking after 22 years. To the contrary, four prospective studies in addition to that by Southall et al.² (which was criticized by Schwartz and colleagues) have found no significant increase in the corrected QT interval (QTc) in infants who died of SIDS as compared with controls.

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