Abstract

BLANCO PEREIRA, María Elena et al. Update on cardiogenesis and congenital heart diseases epidemiology. Rev. Med. Electrón. [online]. 2009, vol.31, n.3, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1684-1824.

Congenital heart diseases represent half of the congenital defects, with prevalence between 8 and 12 per thousand born children. They are the result of heart embryogenesis failures, mainly between the 5 th and the 10 th weeks of prenatal life, period that is considered of maximal teratogenic vulnerability. The etiology of these defects is due to genetic, environmental and multifactorial factors, giving special attention to the environmental ones, as a form of preventing some of them. There are three prevention levels: the primary or pre-conceptional one, the secondary or prenatal and the tertiary or postnatal. The first one is the most important, promoting healthy behaviors and health stiles in fertile age women population.

Keywords : HEART DEFECTS CONGENITAL [epidemiology]; LIFE STYLE; HUMANS; FEMALE.

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