(Reuters Health) - The number of Americans living with congenital heart defects rose dramatically between 2000 and 2010, researchers estimate.
Over the last 30 to 40 years, children born with heart defects have been living longer, which means the population of adults with congenital heart defects has gotten larger, said Dr. Suzanne M. Gilboa from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia.
But the fact that the adult population is approximately 40 percent larger than the child population - 1.4 million vs 1 million – “was somewhat surprising,” she told Reuters Health by email.
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