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* In the UK around 4,600 babies are born each year with congenital heart disease *
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One in every 145 babies in the UK is born with a congenital heart defect.

The prognosis for babies born with congenital heart disease has improved dramatically over the past 30 years. Now over three-quarters of babies with congenital heart disease are predicted to survive into adulthood.

Currently in the UK there are approximately 150,000 people aged 16 and over living with congenital heart disease. It is estimated that the number of adults with congenital heart disease in the UK will grow by 25%, and the number with complex conditions by at least 50%, between 2000 and 2010. 
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* Congenital heart disease statistics 2003
This supplement provides statistics on the burden of congenital heart disease in the UK. Published June 2003.		  
Adobe Acrobat Document - Congenital heart disease statistics 2003
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* Estimates of the numbers of babies born with congenital heart disease by country, 2001, United Kingdom (Table)
Source: Wren and O'Sullivan (2001)Heart; Office for National Statistics (2002) Birth statistics; General Register Office, Edinburgh (2002) Birth statistics; General Register Office, Northern Ireland (2002) Birth statistics.		  
Microsoft Excel Sheet - Estimates of the numbers of babies born with congenital heart disease by country, 2001, United Kingdom (Table)
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* Incidence of congenital heart defects, 1980-1997, Glasgow (Table)
Source: The Greater Glasgow NHS Board Congenital Anomalies Register (2003) 		 
Microsoft Excel Sheet - Incidence of congenital heart defects, 1980-1997, Glasgow (Table)
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* Estimates of the number of people with congenital heart disease (simple and complex), 2000 and 2010, United Kingdom (Table)
Source: Report of the British Cardiac Working Party (2002) Heart.		  
Microsoft Excel Sheet - Estimates of the number of people with congenital heart disease (simple and complex), 2000 and 2010, United Kingdom (Table)
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* Number of cases, observed survival in infancy and predicted survival throughout childhood by diagnostic category of congenital heart disease, 1985-1999, Northern England
Source: Wren and O'Sullivan (2001) Heart.		  
Microsoft Excel Sheet - Number of cases, observed survival in infancy and predicted survival throughout childhood by diagnostic category of congenital heart disease, 1985-1999, Northern England
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