Congenital heart disease epidemiology and demographics

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

Associate Editor-In-Chief: Keri Shafer, M.D. [2],Atif Mohammad, M.D., Priyamvada Singh, MBBS



Epidemiology

  • Affecting approximately one in every 125 babies born, congenital heart defects are the most common birth defect (March of Dimes)[3].
  • Forty thousand people are born each year with a CHD; 4,000 will not survive their first year(The Children's Heart Foundation).
  • Twice as many children die each year from a congenital heart disease than all forms of Pediatric Cancers combined (The Children's Heart Foundation). The eight most common defects account for 80% of all congenital heart diseases, while the remaining 20% consist of many independently infrequent conditions or combinations of several defects.
  • Ventricular septal defect (VSD) is generally considered to be the most common type of malformation, accounting for about 1/3 of all congenital heart defects.
  • The incidence is higher when a parent or a sibling has a heart defect (4–5%), in stillborns (3–4%), abortuses (10–25%), and premature infants (2%).
  • The number of adults with problems connected to a congenital heart defect is rising, passing the number of children with congenital heart defects in most Western countries. This group is referred to as grown-up congenital heart disease (GUCH) patients.
  • Twice as many children die from a congenital heart diseases than from all forms of pediatric cancers combined.


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