CYSTIC FIBROSIS

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Term Paper Title	CYSTIC FIBROSIS
# of Words	474
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	1.9

CYSTIC FIBROSIS

CYSTIC FIBROSIS

     ONE OUT OF EVERY 2,500 BIRTHS IN THE UNITED STATES WILL BE DIAGNOSED
WITH CYSTIC FIBROSIS.  THIS FACT MAKES CYSTIC FIBROSIS ONE OF THE MOST COMMON
GENETIC DISEASES IN THE NATION.  ABOUT 30,000  AMERICANS HAVE THE DISEASE, BUT
EVEN THOUGH CYSTIC FIBROSIS IS THE NATIONS MOST COMMON GENETIC DISEASE THE
MAJORITY OF AMERICANS KNOW LITTLE ABOUT IT.  CYSTIC FIBROSIS IS RELATIVELY
COMMON IN CALCASTION PEOPLE BUT RARE IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN.  THE DISEASE IS VERY
UNCOMMON IN MONGOLIANS.  FIVE PERCENT OF THE POPULATION IN THE UNITED STATES ARE
CARRIERS OF THE GENETIC DISEASE.
     CYSTIC FIBROSIS, SOMETIMES CLASSIFIED AS MUCOVISCIDOSIS, IS A DISORDER
IN WHICH THE EXCRORINE GLANDS SECRETE ABNORMALLY THICK MUCUS. THIS LEADS TO THE
OBSTRUCTION OF THE PANCREAS AND CHRONIC INFECTIONS OF THE LUNGS, WHICH GENERALLY
CAUSES DEATH IN CHILDHOOD OR EARLY ADULTHOOD. SOME MILDLY AFFECTED PATIENTS MAY
SURVIVE LONGER. PATIENTS WITH PANCREATIC INSUFFICIENCY TAKE PANCREATIC ENZYMES
WITH MEALS. THOSE WITH RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS ARE TREATED WITH ANTIBIOTICS,
MOSTLY WITH AEROSOLS THAT RELIEVE CONSTRICTION OF THE AIRWAYS. PHYSICAL THERAPY
IS USED TO HELP PATIENTS COUGH UP THE OBSTRUCTING MUCUS. INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION,
WHICH OCCURS MOSTLY IN INFANCY, MAY REQUIRE SURGERY.
     IN 1989, RESEARCHERS FOND THE ABNORMAL GENE THAT CAUSES CYSTIC FIBROSIS.
THIS GENE IS LOCATED ON CHROMOSOME 7 . A PERSON WHO HAS TWO  CYSTIC FIBROSIS
GENES HAS THE DISEASE . A PERSON THAT CARRIES ONE OF THE GENES DOES NOT HAVE THE
GENETIC DISEASE, BUT IS A CARRIER.
     THE SYMPTOMS OF CYSTIC FIBROSIS SOM...

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