Iqrar Hussain, Syed Sajid Munir, Maimoona Saeed, Sami Ul Haq

To Determine the Frequency of Congenital Heart Disease in Infants of Diabetic Mothers

Iqrar Hussain, Syed Sajid Munir, Maimoona Saeed, Sami Ul Haq



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ABSTRACT

Aim: To determine the frequency of Congenital Heart Disease in infants of diabetic mother.

Methodology: Cross sectional (Descriptive) study conducted in the Department of Pediatrics Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU) Khyber Teaching Hospital Peshawar from 15-04-2015 to 15-10-2015. The sample size was150 patients, using 52.5% incidence of CHD in IDM and 95% confidence interval with 8% margin of error under WHO software

Results: This study was carried out on 150 patients at the Department of Pediatrics, Khyber Teaching Hospital Peshawar. CHD was detected in 79 (52.7%) patients while in 71 (47.33%) patients, CHD was not detected.

Conclusion: Our study concluded moderate prevalence of Congenital Heart Disease in infants born to diabetic mothers. Keywords: Diabetes mellitus, Pregnancy, Newborn, Heart defects



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