Cardiac Disease in Children: Statistics

Thousands of infants born each year have congenital cardiovascular defects. Of those who have these defects,

• 4–10 percent have atrioventricular septal defect.
• 8–11 percent have coarctation of the aorta.
• 9–14 percent have tetralogy of Fallot.
• 10–11 percent have transposition of the great arteries.
• 14–16 percent have ventricular septal defects.
• 4–8 percent have hypoplastic left heart syndrome

Other children will develop acquired heart disease. This includes...

• Arrhythmias. The projected incidence estimate for supraventricular tachycardia alone is 1–4 per 1,000.
• Cardiomyopathies.
• Kawasaki disease.
• Rheumatic fever.

• Familial hypercholesterolemia will affect the future of an unknown but probably large number of children.

• Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) with its myocarditis.
Autism increase is possibly linked to MMR vaccines (which can contain free glutamate as gelatin) according to these articles based on autism rates in Scotland climbing 18% in just one year. Note also that dramatic increases are also being found in the US as well as Britain, with a particularly large jump just in the last decade:

• According to research published in the Dec. 12 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association, "From 1986 to 1998, the number of non-Hispanic white children who were overweight doubled from 6% to 12%. The research suggests that roughly one in five African-American and Hispanic children are overweight -- a startling 120% increase during the 12-year study period

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