Predictive model for congenital heart disease in children of Pakistan by using structural equation modeling.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The structural abnormality of the heart and its blood vessels at the time of birth is known as congenital heart disease. Every year in Pakistan, sixty thousand children are born with CHD, and 44 in 1000 die before they are a month old. Various studies used different techniques to estimate the risk factors of congenital heart disease, but these techniques suffer from a deficiency of capacity to present human understanding and a deficiency of adequate data. The current study provided an innovative approach by defining the latent variables to handle this issue and building a reasonable model.

Method

Data used in this study has been collected from mothers and hospital records of the children. The dataset contains information on 3900 children who visited the OPD of the

SUBMITTER: Shahid S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11580548 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature