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- Title
Diagnostic and Therapeutic Advances in Cystic Fibrosis: How Family Physicians Can Partner in Care.
- Authors
Collins, Melanie Sue; Mansilla-Rivera, Kenia
- Abstract
The world of cystic fibrosis (CF) is changing. Patients are living longer, healthier lives and are now facing many of the same ongoing health challenges as people without CF. Due to significant advances in diagnostic and therapeutic options, the average age of survival for people with the condition in the United States was approximately 53 years in 2021 compared with 36 years in 2006.1–3 Approximately 40,000 people in the United States are living with CF. The disease is found in patients of all racial and ethnic groups. Currently, it is most common in White people (91.2%), followed by Black (3.5%) and Asian (0.5%) people. Additionally, 10% of patients are Hispanic.3 Lower rates of prevalence in minority groups may be due to diagnostic bias; physicians should take care to consider each CF diagnosis based on clinical presentation and not demographics.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CYSTIC fibrosis; PHYSICIANS; ETHNIC groups; MINORITIES; WHITE people
- Publication
American Family Physician, 2024, Vol 109, Issue 5, p388
- ISSN
0002-838X
- Publication type
Article