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What is the prevalence of Cystic Fibrosis?
How many people does Cystic Fibrosis affect? Does it have the same prevalence in men and women? And in the different countries?
Cystic fibrosis affects at least 30,000 people in the United States; between 900 and 1,000 new cases are diagnosed every year (1). One in 29 people of Caucasian ancestry is an unaffected carrier of the CF gene mutation. In the United States, cystic fibrosis occurs at a rate of 1 in 3,400 births.
Posted Jan 18, 2018 by Marieliz Landa 4060
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1 of every 10 000 live births
Posted Sep 14, 2017 by Glauco 2000
