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Ourmission is to lengthen and improve the lives of the littlest heart patients by funding critical research and programs. Congenital heart disease CHD is the 1 birth defectrelated killer. Each year more children die from congenital heart defectsthan from all forms of pediatric cancer combined. There is no cure for any of the 40 types of defects and little is known aboutwhat causes most of them.