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Nationwide Survey Reveals High Prevalence of Non-Swimmers among Children with Congenital Heart Defects

Children, 2023
Background: Physical activity is important for children with congenital heart defects (CHD), not only for somatic health, but also for neurologic, emotional, and psychosocial development. Swimming is a popular endurance sport which is in general suitable
Christian Apitz, Dominik Tobias, Paul Helm, Ulrike M. Bauer, Claudia Niessner, Jannos Siaplaouras   +5 more
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Mental Health Among Parents of Children With Critical Congenital Heart Defects: A Systematic Review

Journal of the American Heart Association : Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2017
Background Parents of children with critical congenital heart defects (PCCHDs) may be at high risk for mental health morbidity; however, the literature is not well characterized.
Sarah E. Woolf-King, Alexandra Anger, Emily A. Arnold, S. Weiss, D. Teitel   +4 more
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Maternal Diabetes and Overweight and Congenital Heart Defects in Offspring

JAMA Network Open
This cohort study investigates the association of maternal diabetes and body mass index with congenital heart defects in offspring.
Riitta Turunen, A. Pulakka, J. Metsälä, T. Vahlberg, T. Ojala, M. Gissler, E. Kajantie, E. Helle   +7 more
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Folate supplementation for prevention of congenital heart defects and low birth weight: an update.

Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy, 2019
Women planning a pregnancy and pregnant women in the first trimester are recommended to use folate-containing supplements in order to prevent neural tube defects.
R. Obeid, W. Holzgreve, K. Pietrzik
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A Dutch MYH7 founder mutation, p.(Asn1918Lys), is associated with early onset cardiomyopathy and congenital heart defects [PDF]

, 2017
Background Mutations in the myosin heavy chain 7 (MYH7) gene commonly cause cardiomyopathy but are less frequently associated with congenital heart defects.
Barge-Schaapveld, D.Q.C.M. (Daniela), Bootsma, M. (Marianne), Boven, L.G. (Ludolf), Breuning, M.H. (Martijn), Bökenkamp, A. (Arend), Herkert, J.C. (Johanna), Hiemstra, Y.L. (Y. L.), Jongbloed, J.D.H. (Jan), Lekanne Deprez, R.H., Mil, A.M. (Anneke) van, Ruivenkamp, C.A. (Claudia), Slegtenhorst, M.A. (Marjon) van, Spaendonck-Zwarts, K.Y. (Karin) van, Ten Broeke, S.W. (Sanne W.), van der Linde, I.H.M. (I. H.M.), Veldkamp, R.F. (Rolf), Waning, J. (Jaap) van, Zwaag, P.A. (Paul) van der   +17 more
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Association Between Maternal Folic Acid Supplementation and Congenital Heart Defects in Offspring in Birth Cohorts From Denmark and Norway

Journal of the American Heart Association : Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2019
Background Evidence linking individual‐level maternal folic acid supplementation to offspring risk of congenital heart defects is lacking. We investigated whether folic acid supplementation in early pregnancy reduces offspring risk of heart defects in 2 ...
N. Øyen, S. Olsen, S. Basit, E. Leirgul, M. Strøm, L. Carstensen, C. Granström, G. Tell, P. Magnus, S. Vollset, J. Wohlfahrt, M. Melbye   +11 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Spatio-Temporal Distribution and Demographic Characteristics of Congenital Heart Defects in Guangdong, China, 2016–2020

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
BackgroundCongenital heart defects are the most common type of birth defects and bring a heavy disease burden in China. Examining the temporal and spatial trends of congenital heart defects epidemics can give some elementary knowledge for succeeding ...
Huazhang Miao, Huazhang Miao, Huazhang Miao, Qinghui Zeng, Zengping Shi, Yi Xia, Lushaobo Shi, Dongxue Chen, Pi Guo, Yingxian Zhu, Dong Wang   +10 more
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Interventional Partial Cavopulmonary Connection: Initial Clinical Experience With Acute Procedural up to Midterm Results

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Background Creation of a partial cavopulmonary anasthomosis in patients with isolated right‐sided heart failure or patients with cyanosis and intracardial right‐to‐left shunt and reduced blood flow in the pulmonary circulation may provide a significant ...
Katarzyna Gendera, Peter Ewert, Stanimir Georgiev, Andreas Eicken, Daniel Tanase, Kristina Borgmann, Paul Philipp Heinisch, Nicole Nagdyman, Julie Cleuziou, Dunja Renner, Pinar Bambul Heck   +10 more
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It Is Not Carved in Stone—The Need for a Genetic Reevaluation of Variants in Pediatric Cardiomyopathies

Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease, 2022
(1) Background: In cardiomyopathies, identification of genetic variants is important for the correct diagnosis and impacts family cascade screening. A classification system was published by the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) in ...
Dominik Sebastian Westphal, Kathrin Pollmann, Christoph Marschall, Annette Wacker-Gussmann, Renate Oberhoffer-Fritz, Karl-Ludwig Laugwitz, Peter Ewert, Cordula Maria Wolf   +7 more
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Complex cardiac defects after ethanol exposure during discrete cardiogenic events in zebrafish: prevention with folic acid [PDF]

, 2013
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) describes a range of birth defects including various congenital heart defects (CHDs). Mechanisms of FASD-associated CHDs are not understood.
Marrs, James A., Swapnalee, Sarmah
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