Definition of the disease:

Cystic Fibrosis is one of the most life-shortening genetic diseases amongst white people, its percentage amongst white newly born in the USA is 1 for every 3300, while it’s 1 for every 15000 amongst black newly born , & 1 for every 32000 amongst American-Asian. 30% of patients are young adults ecause it’s hard to notice this disease at birth. The symptoms sow out as a result of receiving mutant genes from both parents, especially at the long arm of the seventh chromosome, which causes a malfunction in making the protein accompanying the membrane which causes the symptoms to show.

There are about 3% of the gene carriers amongst white people in the USA without showing he symptoms.                                                                           

 One of the most important symptoms is the repeated inflammation of the lungs & the upper & lower respiratory for the patient,aside with unusual diarrhea & mucus for babies & not gaining nough weight like other babies at

their age. The disease can be diagnosed & confirmed by a simple test which is “the sweat test where we collect some sweat from the child & calculate the percentage of salt concentration in it, if it was higher than  60mm it confirm the disease. There are some genetic tests that we can rely on when diagnosing the disease where we examine the chromosome which causes this disease.          

As for the results & progress of this disease, it depends on how affected is the lungs but we cannot avoid the patient’s condition from deteriorating & in a lot of cases could cause death. Nevertheless, during the last 5 decades, there has been a noticeable progress in improving the cases as a result of the new lungs unti-inflammation treatment for the patients.          

It’s also been noticed that life average for Cystic Fibrosis patients is about 31 years, & that some patients can live longer; especially those whose pancreas has not been affected.