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Guidelines for sites linking to mayoclinic.orgAbout one in every 120 babies is born with some form of heart defect. Because most of these babies grow to adulthood, there are now about one million adults in the United States with congenital heart disease. Many people with congenital heart defects can live full and healthy lives. Read more about congenital heart disease at MayoClinic.com.
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