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Symptoms of Cystic Fibrosis
Cystic fibrosis can wreak havoc on the entire human body, especially the lungs. The disease is actually a genetic mutation that affects the glands in the body negatively. Cystic fibrosis can cause chronic sinus infections, coughing up blood, pneumonia, infection, and eventually respiratory failure, pulmonary hypertension (high blood pressure in the lungs), and heart failure. … Continue reading
A Brief History of Cystic Fibrosis
Cystic fibrosis may have been affecting humans since the dawn of human existence, nobody is really sure. The reason for this disease is because of a genetic mutation that occurred in the Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator, also known as the CFTR gene. Since that mutation, for whatever reason, it has been passed down from … Continue reading