Ventricular Septal Defect Risk Factors
What are the risk factors that lead to this condition? Are you at risk of getting Ventricular Septal Defect? Below you'll find information on each of the known risk factors for this condition.
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Ventricular Septal Defect Risks
These factors increase your chance of developing this condition. Tell your doctor if you have any of these risk factors:
- Age: young infants and children
- Parent with a septal defect
- Other genetic defects (eg, Down Syndrome )
- Use of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism or thalidomide during pregnancy
- Rubella during the first trimester of pregnancy
- Maternal diabetes
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