Prevalence of Congenital Heart Disease at Live Birth in Taiwan - 07/03/14
, Hui-Chi Chen, PhD b, Chun-Wei Lu, MD a, Jou-Kou Wang, MD, PhD a, Shin-Chung Huang, MS c, San-Kuei Huang, MD c
Reprint requests: Dr Mei-Hwan Wu, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, National Taiwan University Hospital, No 7, Chung-Shan South Road, Taipei 100, Taiwan.Abstract |
Objectives |
To investigate the prevalence at live birth of congenital heart disease (CHD) in Taiwan.
Study design |
Patients with CHD born from 2000 to 2006 were identified from National Health Insurance databases.
Results |
CHD prevalence was 13.08 per 1000 live births: 12.05 (simple, 10.53; severe, 1.51) in male infants and 14.21 (simple, 12.90; severe, 1.32) in female infants. Ventricular septal defect (VSD; 4.0) was the most common defect, followed by secundum atrial septal defect (ASDII; 3.2), patent ductus arteriosus (PDA; 2.0), pulmonary stenosis (PS; 1.2), tetralogy of Fallot (TOF; 0.63), coarctation of aorta (CoA; 0.25), transposition of great arteries (TGA; 0.21), endocardial cushion defect (ECD; 0.20), double outlet of right ventricle (DORV; 0.15), total anomalous pulmonary venous return (TAPVR; 0.11), aortic stenosis (0.09), hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS; 0.062), Ebstein anomaly (0.047), and tricuspid atresia (0.046). Female predominance was observed in VSD, ASDII, PDA, and ECD; and male predominance was observed in TGA and TOF. Ratios of western prevalence to our Asian prevalence were high for HLHS (3.68-4.5), CoA (1.13-1.96), TGA (1.09-1.83), and tricuspid atresia (1.09-2.57), but low for PS (0.15-0.99), TOF (0.41-0.92), and possibly ASDII.
Conclusions |
In this Asian population, the prevalence of CHD was at the high end of the reported range, with more PS and TOF, but fewer left-sided obstructions, TGA, and tricuspid atresia.
Le texte complet de cet article est disponible en PDF.Mots-clés : ASDII, CHD, CoA, DORV, ECD, HLHS, ICD-9-CM, NHI, PDA, PS, TAPVR, TCPC, TGA, TOF, VSD
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| The authors declare no conflicts of interest. |
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