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Comparison of the clinical manifestations of cystic fibrosis in black and white patients.
The Journal of pediatrics - 1 Feb 1998
Hamosh A, FitzSimmons S C, Macek M, Knowles M R, Rosenstein B J, Cutting G R
Abstract excerpt
No large-scale studies of the incidence or disease severity of cystic fibrosis (CF) in black patients have been reported to date. In this study, the CF Foundation National Patient Registry was used to establish new incidence figures and to compare the clinical status of U.S. black (n = 601) and white patients (n = 17,755) with CE Results indicate that the incidence of CF is approximately 1 in 3,200 white and 1 in...
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