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Key Findings: Maternal Smoking and Congenital Heart Defects
The journal Pediatrics has published a new CDC article: “Maternal Smoking and Congenital Heart Defects in the Baltimore-Washington Infant Study.”
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Heart Defects
CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report has published a new study:  "Racial Differences by Gestational Age in Neonatal Deaths Attributable to Congenital Heart Defects — United States, 2003–2006."
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Key Findings: Mortality Resulting From Congenital Heart Disease Among Children and Adults in the United States, 1999-2006
The American Heart Association’s journal Circulation has published a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study entitled "Mortality Resulting From Congenital Heart Disease Among Children and Adults in the United States, 1999-2006."
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Articles of Interest

*Articles are listed in order of date published.

 

Congenital Heart Defects and Major Structural Noncardiac Anomalies, Atlanta, Georgia, 1968 to 2005
J Pediatr. 2011;159(1):70-78.
Miller A, Riehle-Colarusso T, Alverson CJ, Frías JL, Correa A.
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Associations Between Maternal Fever and Influenza and Congenital Heart Defects
J Pediatr. 2011;158(6):990-5.
Oster ME, Riehle-Colarusso T, Alverson CJ, & Correa A.
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Descriptive study of nonsyndromic atrioventricular septal defects in the National Birth Defects Prevention Study, 1997-2005.
Am J Med Genet A. 2011;155A(3):555-64.
Hartman RJ, Riehle-Colarusso T, Lin A, Frias JL, Patel SS, Duwe K, Correa A, Rasmussen SA, and the National Birth Defects Prevention Study.
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Maternal Smoking and Congenital Heart Defects in the Baltimore-Washington Infant Study
Pediatrics. 2011;127(3):e647-53.
Alverson CJ, Strickland MJ, Gilboa SM, & Correa A.
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Letter to the Editor: Ventricular septal defects and the National Birth Defects Prevention Study
Birth Defects Res Part A Clin Mol Teratol. 2011;91(1):66.
Rasmussen SA, Riehle-Colarusso T, Shapira SK, Honein MA, Reefhuis J, and the National Birth Defects Prevention Study.

 

Mortality Resulting From Congenital Heart Disease Among Children and Adults in the United States, 1999-2006.
Circulation. 2010 Nov 30;122(22):2254-63.
Gilboa SM, Salemi JL, Nembhard WN, Fixler DE, and Correa A.
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Racial Differences by Gestational Age in Neonatal Deaths Attributable to Congenital Heart Defects — United States, 2003–2006
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). 2010;59(37):1208-1211
CDC
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Maternal use of bupropion and risk for congenital heart defects
Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2010; 203(1):52.e1-6.
Alwan S, Reefhuis J, Botto LD, Rasmussen SA, Correa A, Friedman JM, and the National Birth Defects Prevention Study.
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Long-term survival of infants with atrioventricular septal defects.
J Pediatr. 2010;156(6):994-1000. 
Miller A, Siffel C, Lu C, Riehle-Colarusso T, Frías JL, Correa A. 
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Epidemiological Studies of Congenital Heart Defects: Challenges and Opportunities
Congenital Heart Defects: From Origin to Treatment.  Edited by Wyszynski DF, Graham TP, Correa-Villasenor A. Oxford University Press, New York, 2010, p. 401-414.
Honein MA, Rasmussen SA.

 

Health Care Costs of Congenital Heart Defects
Congenital Heart Defects: From Origin to Treatment.  Edited by Wyszynski DF, Graham TP, Correa-Villasenor A. Oxford University Press, New York, 2010, p. 493-501.
Boulet SL, Grosse SD, Riehle-Colarusso T, Correa-Villasenor A.

 

Association Between Prepregnancy Body Mass Index and Congenital Heart Defects
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology; January 2010; 202(1):51.e1-51.e10.
Gilboa SM, et al.
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