Survival and medical care for babies with critical CHDs are improving.About 75% of babies born with a critical CHD are expected to survive to at least one year of age.About 97% of babies born with a non-critical CHD are expected to survive to at least one year of age.Survival of infants with CHDs depends on how severe the defect is, when it is diagnosed, and how it is treated. Nearly half (48%) of the deaths due to CHDs occurred during infancy (younger than 1 year of age). During this period, CHDs were listed as the main cause of death for 27,960 people. This means that CHDs were either the main cause of death or contributed to death in some way. During 1999–2006, there were 41,494 deaths related to CHDs in the United States.In a study of neonatal deaths, 4.2% of all neonatal deaths were due to a CHD. Infant deaths due to CHDs often occur when the baby is less than 28 days old (sometimes called the neonatal period).CHDs are a leading cause of birth defect-associated infant illness and death.To obtain this estimate, researchers used data from administrative healthcare databases in Canada to estimate the prevalence of people living with CHDs and applied this to the U.S. Overall, there are slightly more adults living with CHDs than children.
Researchers estimated that about 1 million U.S. For example, one study estimated that, in 2010, over 2 million infants, children, adolescents, and adults were living with CHDs in the United States. To date, other methods have been used to estimate the total number of children and adults with these defects.Currently, there are several state-based birth defects programs that follow CHDs among newborns and young children, but no system exists to look at the growing population of older children and adults with heart defects.Understanding health issues and needs across the lifespan is vital to improving the lives of individuals born with these conditions. CDC is working with the University of Arizona, Duke University, Emory University, the New York State Department of Health, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, the University of Utah, and the University of Iowa to follow individuals with CHDs across the lifespan.
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