1 Cystic fibrosis is caused by a genetic defect.

2 Cystic fibrosis is the most common fatal genetic disease in the United States.

3 Setting - National association for adults with cystic fibrosis.

4 She died of cystic fibrosis awaiting a heart-lung transplant.

5 Weekly hours worked by adults with cystic fibrosis were not significantly different from those worked by the general population.

6 He excluded patients with cystic fibrosis by performing duodenal drainage tests for the measurements of pancreatic enzyme concentrations in the duodenal juice.

7 The employment record of adults with cystic fibrosis is good.

8 Faecal bile acid loss in cystic fibrosis is unrelated to the presence of intraluminal fat or intestinal bacterial overgrowth.

9 Treatment should be co-ordinated at cystic fibrosis centres or clinics,[] where the necessary expertise is to hand.

10 The high proportion of adults with cystic fibrosis in non-manual occupations may reflect selection or response bias.

11 In very severely affected cases of cystic fibrosis it's sometimes necessary to perform a heart-lung transplant.

12 When cystic fibrosis was first described it was a fatal disease of children.

13 The promised cures to such illnesses as cystic fibrosis and haemophilia are still some time away.

14 Will the virus attach to lung cells in cystic fibrosis patients, who typically have lots of mucus in their lungs?

15 Most adults with cystic fibrosis were found to be living fulfilling lives into adulthood.

16 Failing to reveal cystic fibrosis may be disadvantageous or even illegal.

17 In only a few cases, such as muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis, has the gene and its protein been identified.

18 They announced yesterday that their treatment also eliminates the genetic defect in laboratory mice, bred with cystic fibrosis.

19 We are considering making a strain of transgenic sheep containing the mutant gene that causes cystic fibrosis in humans.

20 This study confirms previous findings that faecal bile acid losses are increased appreciably in patients with cystic fibrosis.

21 The child of a black white mating, safe from both cystic fibrosis and sickle-cell disease, is hybrid vigour personified.

22 Many paediatricians inform the research trust of new patients with cystic fibrosis, with their family's consent, on diagnosis.

23 Read in studio Scientists have made a breakthrough in the fight against the genetic disease Cystic Fibrosis.

24 The discovery also has implications for around 25 thousand children and young people who suffer from the inherited disease cystic fibrosis.

25 Invitro studies have shown impairment of bile acid absorption in the ileal mucosa of patients with cystic fibrosis.

26 If successful, gene therapy could eventually offer effective treatment for as many as 4,000 hereditary illnesses, including cystic fibrosis.

27 Excessive faecal bile acid losses have not been found in all studies in adult patients with cystic fibrosis.

28 Its principal product is the Ultrase prescription enzyme preparation for cystic fibrosis patients.

29 To date, ￡700 in sponsorship money has been collected for Cystic Fibrosis.

30 We used selective media and phenotypic and genomic typing systems to investigate the acquisition of P cepacia by adults with cystic fibrosis.

31 Cystic fibrosis is the commonest fatal here-ditary disease.

32 She was clueless about how to treat cystic fibrosis.

33 Tay-Sachs is most common among Askenazi Jews and French Canadian populations, while cystic fibrosis is mostly seen in people of Northern European descent.

34 Some diseases prominent within the European population that could see numbers drop as mixed-race grow are cystic fibrosis, coeliac disease,[] muscular dystrophy and haemophilia.

35 Diabetes, cystic fibrosis albumin or sugar in the urine or other endocrine problems?

36 Duchene's muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis are examples of hereditary diseases that result from nonsense mutations.

37 For those thinking of starting a family, it could alert them to their risk of having a baby with cystic fibrosis, Tay-Sachs and other genetic disorders.

38 When I was 5 years it was asthma by age 12 it was Cystic Fibrosis.

39 The genetic material of a cell from a cystic fibrosis patient, for example, can be transferred into an unfertilised egg cell with its own genetic material removed.

40 These disorders may include cystic fibrosis, hemophilia, sickle cell anemia, and many others.

41 The study was funded in part by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

42 PGD is good for screening for specific genetic disorders such as cystic fibrosis and Tay-Sachs disease, and also can be used to select gender.

43 Pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy is given to manage pancreatic exocrine insufficiency (PEI) in cystic fibrosis (CF) and following pancreatectomy, total gastrectomy or chronic pancreatitis .

44 PGD has been offered by the NHS for more than a decade for serious diseases that come early in childhood, like cystic fibrosis or Tay Sachs, a neurological disease.

45 There really haven't been that many patients with cystic fibrosis who have had active smoking.

46 Cystic fibrosis causes about half of all bronchiectasis in the United States.

47 Prenatal testing can be offered in case of cystic fibrosis.

48 Chronic diarrhea is usually more significant. Causes include gluten-induced enteropathy, cystic fibrosis, sugar malabsorption , and allergic gastroenteropathy.

49 Connolly is quick to add that if you have AIDS, chronic lung disease, cystic fibrosis or an immune system disorder, then there is some cause for concern.

50 Footballer Joe Cole has been announced as a new patron of the Cystic Fibrosis Trust.

51 Cystic fibrosis is a serious inherited disease that affects tiny channels that bring nutrients into and out of cells.

52 Gall - blader disease and cystic fibrosis also often involve me.

53 Introduction: Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an inherited disorder that presents in childhood as a multisystem disease.

54 Pulmonary status is also evaluated in children in whom cystic fibrosis is suspected.

55 Doctors say cloning might also help them find cures for diabetes and cystic fibrosis.

56 Further, cystic fibrosis is the second most common childhood onset inherited disorder in the United States.

57 A. Children with cystic fibrosis require a high - protein , high - calorie diet.

58 So-called recessively inherited disorders, such as Tay-Sachs disease, cystic fibrosis and red blood cell disorders known as thalessemias are rare.

59 Collins wants to avoid repetition of the confusion that followed the discovery in 1989 of the cystic fibrosis gene.

60 Still other couples want to be armed with the information that their unborn child will have Down's syndrome cystic fibrosis or other genetic abnormalities before they make decisions or plans.