title: Prevalence of congenital heart disease in rural population of Himachal - A population-based study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  There is no community-based study about the prevalence of congenital heart disease (CHD) in Himachal; hence, we undertook this study.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A population-based survey was done in four villages of different districts of Himachal Pradesh. In total, 1882 persons were examined. 909 were male and 973 were female. There were 12 cases of CHD in the population (6.3/1000): four of these were male (33.3%) and 8 were female (66.6%). Mean age of these patients was 19.5±11.07 years. Atrial septal defect (ASD) was the commonest lesion followed by ventricular septal defect (VSD).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Prevalence of CHD in general population was 6.3/1000. ASD was the commonest lesion. CHD was more common in female.
authors.affiliation: Professor, Department of Cardiology, Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla 171001, India. Electronic address: rajeevbhardwaj_dr@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Rajeev
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bhardwaj
authors.affiliation: Associate Professor, Department of Cardiology, Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla 171001, India.
authors.forename: Arvind
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kandoria
authors.affiliation: Senior Resident, Department of Cardiology, Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla 171001, India.
authors.forename: Rajeev
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Marwah
authors.affiliation: Senior Resident, Department of Cardiology, Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla 171001, India.
authors.forename: Piyush
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Vaidya
authors.affiliation: Junior Resident, Department of Medicine, Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla 171001, India.
authors.forename: Bakshish
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.affiliation: Junior Resident, Department of Medicine, Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla 171001, India.
authors.forename: Pravesh
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dhiman
authors.affiliation: Senior Resident, Department of Cardiology, Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla 171001, India.
authors.forename: Arvind
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sood
authors.affiliation: Junior Resident, Department of Pediatrics, Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla 171001, India.
authors.forename: Avinash
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sharma
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D011159:Population Surveillance; D015995:Prevalence; D012424:Rural Population; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Atrial septal defect; Congenital heart disease; Prevalence