CHD in infants tied to pollution, social deprivation

A study in the Journal of the American Heart Association showed that the congenital heart disease incidence rates of live-born infants who were in quartile four of social deprivation and quartile four for exposure to environmental pollutants were 1.31 times and 1.24 times higher, respectively, compared with those in quartile one. The findings were based on data involving more than 2.4 million live-born infants in California.

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