Disease and Economic Burden of Intellectual Developmental Disability Attributable to Congenital Heart Disease, 1990–2021
By: Xinjie Lin, Qiyu He, Xuyan Pei, Yanshang Wang, Sirui Zhou, Li Chen, Kai Ma, Zheng Dou, Yuze Liu, Yanbing Ma and Shoujun Li
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/gh.1511 | Journal eISSN: 2211-8179
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Submitted on: Aug 11, 2025
Accepted on: Dec 11, 2025
Published on: Jan 16, 2026
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