What Is Congenital Heart Disease and What Does It Mean For You and Your Family?
More than 1.3 million Americans have some form of congenital heart defect.
By Nadine Choueiter, M.D. , Contributor |Feb. 6, 2018, at 6:00 a.m.
Each year in the U.S., approximately 40,000 children are born with congenital heart disease. This means that at birth, the baby has a heart defect caused because the heart or blood vessels near the heart didn't develop normally while the baby was in the womb. Babies with CHD can have abnormal or absent chambers, holes in the heart, abnormal connections in the heart and abnormalities in the function of the heart.
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