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Lifespan Brain Health Trajectories in Congenital Heart Disease: the role of sex & gender

Project Overview

Congenital heart disease (“CHD”) refers to problems with heart structure and function that begin at birth. People with CHD are now living longer than ever before because of medical and surgical advances. CHD can be linked to issues with brain health. This includes issues with brain development and growth at birth linked to heart development issues. It can also include problems that develop over time due to heart issues with aging, including strokes, low blood and oxygen supply to the brain, and medical procedures and surgeries. This also includes issues related to mental health and well-being. How these experiences and risks are different between men and women is also not known. We will look at how brain health changes throughout life in CHD and whether there are different considerations for men and women. We will do this in three main ways: (1) combining brain scan studies in people with CHD of different ages and looking for trends by age and sex, (2) studying 8-year-old children with CHD who had brain scans as infants and seeing what factors have affected their brain health status over time, (3) special mathematical approaches (“network analysis”) to look at how medical factors interact with life experiences to influence brain health. We expect that this work will generate new knowledge that will help to improve treatment and prevention to improve brain health in CHD.

Principal Investigator

Thalia Field , University of British Columbia

Partners and Donors

Heart and Stroke Foundation

Project Ongoing

Lifespan Brain Health Trajectories in Congenital Heart Disease: the role of sex & gender

  • Grant Type

    Team grants

  • Area of research

    Multiple

  • Disease Area

    Mental illness

  • Competition

    Congenital Heart Disease Team Grants

  • Province

    British Columbia

  • Start Date

    2024

  • Total Grant Amount

    $1,750,000

  • Health Canada Contribution

    $700,000

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The offices of Brain Canada Foundation are located on the traditional, ancestral territory of the Kanien'kehá:ka Peoples, a place which has long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst nations. We honour and pay respect to elders past, present and emerging, and dedicate ourselves to moving forward in the spirit of partnership, collaboration, and reconciliation. In our work, we focus our efforts on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action, particularly those that pertain to improving health for Indigenous Peoples and that focus on advancing our own learning on Indigenous issues.

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