ABC | Volume 111, Nº5, November 2018

Original Article Lopes et al Mortality for critical congenital heart diseases and newborns Arq Bras Cardiol. 2018; 111(5):666-673 Figure 3 – Kaplan-Meier curves, according to deaths related or not to heart disease. CHD: congenital heart defects. 1.0 0.9 0.8 0.7 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.0 Survival 0 5 15 25 35 45 55 65 75 85 95 105 115 125 135 145 155 165 175 185 195 205 215 225 Days p = 0.0789* Survival median CHD-related death Yes No Author contributions Conception and design of the research: Lopes SAVA; Acquisition of data: Lopes SAVA, Costa SFO; Analysis and interpretation of the data and Statistical analysis: Lopes SAVA, Mendes CMC; Obtaining financing: Lopes SAVA, Guimarães ICB; Writing of the manuscript: Lopes SAVA; Critical revision of the manuscript for intellectual content: Lopes SAVA, Mendes CMC, Acosta AX, Sandes KA, Costa SFO. Potential Conflict of Interest No potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported. Sources of Funding This study was partially funded by Foundation for Research Support of Bahia, with funds from the PPSUS 2013 award, and fellowships for Scientific Initiation, as well as by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) – scholarships for Scientific Initiation . Study Association This article is part of the thesis of Doctoral submitted by Selma Alves Valente do Amaral Lopes, from Instituto de Ciências da Saúde da Universidade Federal da Bahia. Ethics approval and consent to participate This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Hospital Ana Nery under the protocol number CAAE: 17970413200000045. All the procedures in this study were in accordance with the 1975 Helsinki Declaration, updated in 2013. Informed consent was obtained from all participants included in the study. 671