Article
Cystic fibrosis in children from ethnic minorities in the West Midlands.
Respiratory medicine - 1 Oct 1994
Spencer D A, Venkataraman M, Higgins S, Stevenson K, Weller P H
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: We have observed that Doctors often perceive that cystic fibrosis (CF) is exceptionally rare in non-whites, and that this bias has repeatedly resulted in diagnostic delay. We therefore compared the age at diagnosis, genetic features and relative prevalence of CF in non-whites and whit...
Topics
- Bangladesh
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Cystic Fibrosis
- England
- Ethnicity
- Humans
- India
- Infant
- Mutation
- Pakistan
- Prevalence
- Time Factors