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Cystic fibrosis (also known as CF or mucoviscidosis) is an autosomal recessive genetic disorder affecting most critically the lungs, and also the pancreas, liver, and intestine.
CFTR Mutation Detection Rate 2020 Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Patient Registry [11] Race / ethnicity Detection rate (%) Detection failure rate (%) Asian 56-77 23-44 Black 73-86 14-27 American Indian and Alaskan Natives 84-91 9-16 Hispanic 81-94 6-19 White 95-97 3-5
Human infectious diseases may be characterized by their case fatality rate (CFR), the proportion of people diagnosed with a disease who die from it (cf. mortality rate).It should not be confused with the infection fatality rate (IFR), the estimated proportion of people infected by a disease-causing agent, including asymptomatic and undiagnosed infections, who die from the disease.
It includes People with cystic fibrosis that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "Deaths from cystic fibrosis" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
Alex: The Life of a Child is a biography and film about the life and death of Alexandra Deford from cystic fibrosis. [1] After her death in 1980 at the age of eight, her father, Frank Deford, a sportswriter, was inspired to write a memoir about Alex three years later. The book depicts Alex's determination to make the best of her circumstances ...
Laura Rothenberg was born February 3, 1981 [1] and she grew up in New York City. Shortly after birth she was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis, a fatal disease with varying life expectancy. [2]
End stage pulmonary disease (ESPD) [2] is the result of chronic progressive lung diseases like COPD, [3] idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, or systemic progressive diseases that affect the lungs such as cystic fibrosis or granulomatosis with polyangiitis. It is defined as when the lungs can no longer or barely remove enough carbon dioxide or supply ...
Dorothy Hansine Andersen (May 15, 1901 – March 3, 1963) was the American physician and researcher who first identified and named cystic fibrosis.During her almost thirty year tenure at Babies Hospital of Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center (now Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital), Andersen not only identified CF and its inheritance through a recessive gene, she was also at the forefront of ...