February is considered Heart Awareness Month but the CHD heartland considers this a very special week to bring awareness and honor those who have lived and lost due to being born with a broken heart. So how common are (CHDs) congenital heart defects?
- CHDs are the most common birth defects. CHDs occur in almost 1% of births.
- An approximate 100-200 deaths are due to unrecognized heart disease in newborns each year. These numbers exclude those dying before diagnosis.
- Nearly 40,000 infants in the U.S. are born each year with CHDs.
- CHDs are as common as autism and about twenty-five times more common than cystic fibrosis.
- Approximately two to three million individuals are thought to be living in the United States with CHDs. Because there is no U.S. system to track CHDs beyond early childhood, more precise estimates are not available.
- Thanks to improvements in survival, the number of adults living with CHDs is increasing. It is now believed that the number of adults living with CHDs.
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I appreciate your information. Heart research has been one of my most recent passions, as you know. You have always been a wealth of information. And the way you embrace life, your kids and our faithful God makes me thankful!
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