On 2014 Jan 11, David Mage commented:

The authors report an interesting study in regards to sustained hypoxia and respiratory neural control during a critical period of development in rats. However it may have no relation to the phenomenon of human sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). It has been shown that human SIDS occur between birth and 3.5 years with a 4-parameter lognormal age distribution (Johnson SB) Mage DT, 2009. This distribution is continuous and has no discontinuities between fore and aft portions of the age distribution on either side of "a critical period of development." The SIDS community seems to have forgotten that the operative definiton of modern SIDS as being restricted to under one year from birth was made for research purposes only Willinger M, 1991 and the triple risk model for SIDS cited by these authors does not predict a 50% male excess for SIDS Mage DT, 2014.

On 2014 Jan 11, David Mage commented:

The authors report an interesting study in regards to sustained hypoxia and respiratory neural control during a critical period of development in rats. However it may have no relation to the phenomenon of human sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). It has been shown that human SIDS occur between birth and 3.5 years with a 4-parameter lognormal age distribution (Johnson SB) Mage DT, 2009. This distribution is continuous and has no discontinuities between fore and aft portions of the age distribution on either side of "a critical period of development." The SIDS community seems to have forgotten that the operative definiton of modern SIDS as being restricted to under one year from birth was made for research purposes only Willinger M, 1991 and the triple risk model for SIDS cited by these authors does not predict a 50% male excess for SIDS Mage DT, 2014.