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(Circulation. 1973;47:359.)
© 1973 American Heart Association, Inc.

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Racial Frequencies in Congenital Heart Disease

BARRY J. MARON M.D.¹; JUDITH M. APPLEFELD ¹; L. JEROME KROVETZ M.D., PH.D.¹

¹ From the Children's Cardiac Center, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland.

A retrospective population study of racial frequencies in three congenital heart malformations, transposition of the great vessels, coarctation of the aorta, and aortic atresia with left heart hypoplasia, indicated no significant difference in incidence among Negroes and Caucasians in the Baltimore metropolitan area.

Key Words: Transposition of the great vessels • Coarctation of the aorta • Hypoplastic left heart syndrome

Submitted on June 30, 1972
Accepted on October 5, 1972

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