Siegfried Geyer1,*, Claudia Dellas2, Thomas Paul2, Matthias Müller2, Kambiz Norozi2,3,4
Congenital Heart Disease, Vol.18, No.3, pp. 337-348, 2023, DOI:10.32604/chd.2023.028827
Abstract Objectives: To examine whether patients with congenital heart disease (CHD) are less likely to have a partner or children than individuals from the general population. Methods: Longitudinal study with two assessments of the same patients (n = 244) from a hospital population and controls (n = 238) from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) using parental education, patients age, and sex as matching criteria. The first patient study was conducted between 5/2003 and 6/2004, the second one between 5/2017 and 4/2019. Controls were drawn from GSOEP-surveys 2004 and 2018. CHD-severity was classified according to type of surgery: curative, reparative, or palliative.… More >
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