Keep the Beat It’s My Heart Annual CHD Awareness Walks

Walk Raises Awareness For Heart Defects

By Rachel McNeill
POSTED: Thursday, February 4, 2010

HOUSTON — One out of every 100 babies is born with a congenital heart defect, and many families don’t know about this potentially fatal condition until it strikes someone they love, KPRC Local 2 reported Thursday. Houston mom Corrie Stassen has made it her mission to change that.

DID YOU KNOW?

Nearly twice as many children die from Congenital Heart Defects in the United States each year as from all forms of childhood cancers combined.

Yet funding for pediatric cancer research is 5 times higher than funding for Congenital Heart Defects.

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