Survival rates in cystic fibrosis.

Survival rates in cystic fibrosis.

Life tables were calculated for 273 British children with cystic fibrosis for the period 1974-9. There was a marked improvement in survival rates in the meconium ileus group compared with the 1969-73 data, but there was little improvement in patients presenting later with other symptoms.

Predicting survival in cystic fibrosis.

Cystic fibrosis mortality and survival

Data up to 1995 on the survival of 3-yr cohorts of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) born in the UK in the period 1968–1992 have previously been published. The present study reports survival data up to the end of 2003 together with a 2003 population estimate. All subjects with CF born in the UK in the period 1968–1992 were identified up to 1997 by active enquiry through recognised CF clinics a...

Editorials Modelling survival in cystic fibrosis

The mantra of improving survival permeates virtually every paper related to prognosis or treatment for cystic fibrosis (CF) in the past two decades. However, the upward trend in the expected duration of life for patients with CF may have lost its momentum. The US and Canadian national CF registries show estimated median survival age increasing to around 32 years in 1989 and 1996, respectively, ...

Nutrition and survival in cystic fibrosis.

The principal clinical manifestations of cystic fibrosis are bronchiectasis with chronic pulmonary infection and pancreatic malabsorption due to destruction of the exocrine pancreas.' The interactions between the lung disease and nutrition are important because nutritional state usually parallels declining lung function and is a predictor of survival.2 A better understanding of how these two fa...