High Prevalence of Unrecognized Congenital Heart Disease in School-Age Children in Rural China: A Population-Based Echocardiographic Screening Study

Circulation. 2021 Dec 7;144(23):1896-1898. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.121.056455. Epub 2021 Dec 6.

Quming Zhao^#^{1

2}, Hongyan Chen^#³, Guowen Zhang⁴, Weicheng Chen^{1

2}, Bing Jia^{1

2}, Fang Liu^{1

2}, Xiaojing Ma^{1

2}, Weili Yan³, Conway Niu⁵, Guoying Huang^{1

2}

¹ Pediatric Heart Center (Q.Z., W.C., B.J., F.L., X.M., G.H.), Children's Hospital of Fudan University, National Children's Medical Center, Shanghai, China.
² Shanghai Key Laboratory of Birth Defects, China (Q.Z., W.C., B.J., F.L., X.M., G.H.).
³ Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Clinical Trial Unit (H.C., W.Y.), Children's Hospital of Fudan University, National Children's Medical Center, Shanghai, China.
⁴ Pediatric Department, Luchun County People's Hospital, Yunnan Province, China (G.Z.).
⁵ Department of General Paediatrics, Perth Children's Hospital, Australia (C.N.).

^# Contributed equally.

No abstract available

Keywords: congenital heart disease; echocardiography.

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