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Congenital Heart Disease in Children with Down Syndrome. Children with Down syndrome are at a much higher risk for congenital heart disease. As a comparison: the incidence of congenital heart disease in the general population is 0.8 percent. The incidence of congenital heart disease in children with Down syndrome is between 40-60 percent. Some heart defects can be left alone with careful monitoring while others require surgery to correct the problem. The following types of heart defects in children with Down syndrome are discussed below.
Down syndrome survival. 1  The life expectancy of people with Down syndrome increased dramatically between 1960 and 2007. 2  Many factors can affect how long a person with Down syndrome lives. 3  Between 1983 and 2003, about 93% of babies born with Down syndrome survived to one year of age. In the same time period, about 88% of babies born with Down syndrome survived to 20 years of age. [Read summary ] The number of infants with Down syndrome that die before one year of age has declined over time. For example, between 1979 and 2003, among babies with Down syndrome, the rate of death during the first year of life declined from 8.5% to 5.0%, a decrease of about 41%.