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Adults with congenital heart disease now form more than 60% of the total CHD population, requiring periodic evaluation and creating increasing pressure on healthcare services.
Highlights the growing importance of assessing quality of life in the expanding population of adults living with congenital heart disease.
“Living well is as important to most people as living longer” is the opening statement of Apers et al .’s recently published paper in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology addressing quality of life (QOL) amongst adults living with congenital heart disease (CHD) (1). As survival with CHD continues well into adulthood, owing to the dramatic success story of pediatric cardiovascular diagnostics and cardiothoracic surgery, the population of adults with CHD is growing, forming more than 60% of the total CHD population (2), and now exceeding the number of newborns with CHD annually (3). Almost all adults with CHD require periodic evaluation by a congenital cardiologist throughout their lifetime, creating an ever-increasing pressure on healthcare services (4,5).
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Hunter et al. (2016) conducted an editorial in Congenital heart disease. Adults with congenital heart disease now form more than 60% of the total CHD population, requiring periodic evaluation and creating increasing pressure on healthcare services.
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