Excessive alcohol consumption increases risk of congenital heart disease — Expert

Excessive alcohol consumption increases risk of congenital heart disease — Expert

Dr Femi Oloyede is at Olabisi Onabanjo Teaching Hospital, its treatment management Congenital heart disease is disorder involving heart or functions. It during is at birth in survivors. causes? The traditional of congenital heart disease also referred to as factors because not every that is associated risks will result in Strong factors in mother (of child CHD) include previous history of disease, Excessive alcohol consumption intake of drugs effect (capable of disturbing development of heart) well-documented medications such as.

A team of 35 medical professionals from Open Heart International (OHI) in Australia are currently in Tonga performing open heart surgery on locals with rheumatic heart disease. At Vaiola Hospital, OHI Chief surgeon volunteer, Dr Bruce French, said since his first visit to Tonga in 2011 to date, the number of open-heart surgeries performed in Tonga is still the same. But he attributed this to a screening program run in schools, which detects early rheumatic heart disease. The screening “doesn’t happen anywhere else in the world”. “There is no reduction in congenital heart disease causes the amount of operations. I think it’s being detected more commonly now than in the past,” he said. “As a result of that program, not only are children with early rheumatic heart disease being detected but also Tongan children with congenital heart disease, yet to cause symptoms, are being picked up. ” “And this is, I would have to say, something worth celebrating in Tonga,” he said. Dr French, who has been volunteering his services in Tonga since 2011, will be retiring soon and chose Tonga as his last volunteer stint.

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