Congenital Heart Defects in the United States
Carter Center · Arkansas Children's Hospital · +7 more institutions
Abstract
Because of advancements in care, there has been a decline in mortality from congenital heart defects (CHDs) over the past several decades. However, there are no current empirical data documenting the number of people living with CHDs in the United States. Our aim was to estimate the CHD prevalence across all age groups in the United States in the year 2010.
The age-, sex-, and severity-specific observed prevalence of CHDs in Québec, Canada, in the year 2010 was assumed to equal the CHD prevalence in the non-Hispanic white population in the United States in 2010. A race-ethnicity adjustment factor, reflecting differential survival between racial-ethnic groups through 5 years of age for individuals with a CHD and that in the general US population, was applied to the estimated non-Hispanic white rates to derive CHD prevalence estimates among US non-Hispanic blacks and Hispanics. Confidence intervals for the estimated CHD prevalence rates and case counts were derived from a combination of Taylor series approximations and Monte Carlo simulation.
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 43.65
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 33
Authors
10- SMSuzanne M. GilboaCorresponding
Carter Center, Arkansas Children's Hospital, Emory University, University of South Florida, Jackson Memorial Hospital, University of Mississippi Medical Center, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
- ODOwen Devine
Carter Center, Arkansas Children's Hospital, Emory University, University of South Florida, Jackson Memorial Hospital, University of Mississippi Medical Center, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
- JEJames E. Kucik
Carter Center, Arkansas Children's Hospital, Emory University, University of South Florida, Jackson Memorial Hospital, University of Mississippi Medical Center, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
- MEMatthew E. Oster
Carter Center, Arkansas Children's Hospital, Emory University, University of South Florida, Jackson Memorial Hospital, University of Mississippi Medical Center, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
- TRTiffany Riehle‐Colarusso
Carter Center, Arkansas Children's Hospital, Emory University, University of South Florida, Jackson Memorial Hospital, University of Mississippi Medical Center, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Topics & keywords
- Medicine
- Demography
- Ethnic group
- Population
- Confidence interval
- Gerontology
- Epidemiology
- Environmental health
- Good health and well-being
Funding
- HAHeart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
- ABArkansas Biosciences Institute
- NINational Institutes of Health
- CICanadian Institutes of Health Research
- NHNational Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
- NCNational Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- NINational Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities