Frequency of congenital heart disease in newborns in Tuzla Canton (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

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Title

Frequency of congenital heart disease in newborns in Tuzla Canton (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

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Author

Rifet, Terzić, Suad, Širanović, Aldijana, Tursunović, Amela, Hercegovac, Zlatan, Fatušić, Ibrahim

Journal

Glasnik Antropološkog društva Srbije

Volume
Issue

48

Start page

137

End page

143

ISSN

1820-7936

ISBN
DOI

10.5937/gads1348137T

URL

http://scindeks.ceon.rs/article.aspx?query=ISSID%26and%2612263&page=0&so...

Date

2013-2021/11/03/10:58:58

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to present the preliminary results of the monitoring study of the frequency of congenital heart disease in newborns in Tuzla Canton (Bosnia and Herzegovina), and their distribution by sex of the newborn and maternal age. The study used the data from the book of protocols and case records of the Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics, the University Clinical Center in Tuzla. The analysis of 8,521 newborns between 1 January 2007 and 31 December 2008 has resulted in the frequency of 1.76%, i.e. 1.31% for the mature newborns and 0.45% for the premature newborns respectively. Of the total number of registered anomalies, 10% was associated with congenital anomalies of other systems. No statistically significant differences were found in the subsamples of both mature and premature newborns when it comes to the distribution of congenital heart disease by sex of newborns and maternal age. The frequency registered in the analyzed period suggests the necessity of screening and monitoring congenital heart disease in the observed population.

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