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Healthy Living: Saving Hearts from Birth to Beyond

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Holes in your heart, blocked valves and narrow arteries.

The fact is, if you had been born 40 years ago with one of these problems, you probably wouldn’t have lived to be a teenager.

Today, congenital heart defects – or CHDs – are still the most common birth defects. Eight in a thousand newborns are diagnosed with it.

But for the first time, more and more are living into their 30’s, 40’s and 50’s, and it’s all thanks to modern medicine.

Whitney Amann has the details in this Healthy Living.

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