Heart Defect Risk

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  Symptoms And Causes Of Congenital Heart Disease In Adults

  This article explores the common symptoms and causes of congenital heart disease in adults, as well as strategies for managing and living with this condition.

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  Heart Failure: 6 Most Important Causes You Must Know

  Heart failure: A number of causes lead to heart failure, including damage to heart muscles, heart valves and much more. Here's everything you need to know about what really leads to heart failure.

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  High Blood Sugar During Pregnancy May Up Risk Of Congenital Heart Defect: 5 Diabetic-Friendly Fruits

  Maternal diabetes may prove detrimental for the fetal heart development of the child, a new study has revealed

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  Congenital Rubella Syndrome: Everything You Need To Know

  Congenital rubella syndrome is a condition which can cause deafness, heart defects, mental retardation and cataract in newborn babies.

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  Spiked Blood Sugar in Pregnancy May Up Heart Risk In Babies: 4 Foods That Regulate Blood Sugar Naturally

  Higher blood sugar in early pregnancy may raise your baby's risk of a congenital heart defect,

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  Maternal Obesity May Increase the Risk of Serious Birth Defects

  According to a new study,The BMJ medical journal, mother's obesity can out the foetus at the risk of developing major birth defects such as malformations of the heart and genitals.

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  Lab-Grown Blood Vessels To Help Kids With Heart Defects

  In a groundbreaking feat, a team of biomedical engineers has successfully implanted lab-grown artificial blood vessels in young lambs which are capable of growth within the recipient.

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  Complex Mix Of Gene Effects Causes Congenital Heart Defect

  The overall risk of congenital heart defects - the leading cause of birth defect-related deaths - is determined by a complex combination of gene effects both inside and outside of the heart, a new study has found.

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  High Blood-Sugar During Pregnancy Ups Baby's Heart Defect Risk

  Pregnant women with high blood-sugar levels - even if it is below the cutoff for diabetes - are more likely to have babies with congenital heart defects, says a new study.

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  High Blood-Sugar in Pregnancy Increases Baby's Heart Defect Risk

  Pregnant women with high blood-sugar levels - even if it is below the cutoff for diabetes - are more likely to have babies with congenital heart defects, says a new study.

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  Antidepressant tied to heart defect

  Women who use the antidepressant bupropion during early pregnancy have an increased risk of having a baby with a particular type of heart defect.

• Uncorrected heart defect ups risk of infant death

  Infants born with a congenital heart defect that goes uncorrected have a higher risk of dying than their counterparts who have the heart defect corrected.

• Mom's diabetes risky for babies

  Pregnant women with diabetes have a higher risk of giving birth to a child with multiple birth defects.

• Pregnancy after heart repair harmful

  Women who've had an operation in infancy to repair a congenital heart defect can have a successful pregnancy, but it carries a risk of subsequent heart problems.

• Maternal obesity and birth defects

  A recent study suggests that women who are obese when they become pregnant appear to be more likely to give birth to babies with various birth defects than women of healthy weight. Moreover, simply being overweight but not obese at the time of conception seems to increase the risk of having a child with heart defects or more than one unrelated birt...