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Table 4 The proportion of men with CHD who had fathered a child

From: Congenital heart disease in men – birth characteristics and reproduction: a national cohort study

Diagnosis

Counta

%

P-valueb

Complex

   

Truncus arteriosus

1

4.0

0.036

Transposition of the great arteries

26

15.5

0.072

Tetralogy of Fallot

29

17.4

0.232

Single ventricle

7

20.6

0.937

Simple

   

Ventricular septal defect

103

13.2

<0.001

Atrial septal defect

84

15.7

0.002

Endocardial cushion-defect - atrioventricular septal defect

12

11.1

0.011

Triscupid valve defect

10

13.2

0.088

Mitral valve defect

19

14.1

0.044

Pulmonary valve defect

46

17.5

<0.001

Congenital valve stenosis

43

17.6

0.178

Other heart defects

36

13.4

0.002

Congenital aortic insufficiency

58

17.5

0.101

Patent arterial duct

39

11.1

<0.001

Coarctation of the aorta

51

19.2

0.449

Other anomalies of the aorta

17

16.5

0.249

Anomalies of the pulmonary artery

12

13.6

0.085

Anomalies of the great veins

22

18.5

0.478

Non-specified anomalies of the heart or great vessels

69

15.4

<0.001

Total

415

15.4

<0.001

  1. aEach person may have more than one CHD diagnosis.
  2. bCompared to all other men in the study cohort.