{"id":6073,"date":"2025-03-22T17:28:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T14:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/?p=6073"},"modified":"2025-03-22T17:31:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T14:31:25","slug":"newborns-with-congenital-heart-defects-face-elevated-cancer-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/newborns-with-congenital-heart-defects-face-elevated-cancer-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Newborns with Congenital Heart Defects Face Elevated Cancer Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Newborns with Congenital Heart Defects Face Elevated Cancer Risk \u2013 Summary<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Source: Circulation\/AHA\/ASA Journal\/Published 17 March 20252025.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Key Findings:<\/div>\n<div><span> 1. Increased Cancer Risk in Newborns with Congenital Heart Defects (CHD)<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Newborns with CHD have a 66% higher risk of developing childhood cancer compared to those without CHD.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 The risk is particularly high in cases where the heart defect involves valves or blood vessels.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Leukemia (21%) and Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (11%) are the most common cancers observed.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> 2. Elevated Cancer Risk in Mothers of CHD Newborns<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Mothers of newborns with CHD were 17% more likely to develop cancer within 10 years after childbirth.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 The reason for this increased risk remains unclear, but genetic factors and maternal health may play a role.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> 3. Possible Explanations &amp; Expert Insights<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Some experts suggest that stress associated with raising a child with CHD could contribute to an increased cancer risk.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahajournals.org\/doi\/10.1161\/CIRCULATIONAHA.124.071811\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.ahajournals.org\/doi\/10.1161\/CIRCULATIONAHA.124.071811<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newborns with Congenital Heart Defects Face Elevated Cancer Risk \u2013 Summary Source: Circulation\/AHA\/ASA Journal\/Published 17 March 20252025. Key Findings: 1. Increased Cancer Risk in Newborns with Congenital Heart Defects (CHD) \u2022 Newborns with CHD have a 66% higher risk of developing childhood cancer compared to those without CHD. \u2022 The risk is particularly high in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6073"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6075,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6073\/revisions\/6075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}