CF Population predicted to increase

[Imogene]

http://cysticfibrosisnewstoday.com/...sis-patient-population-predicted-to-increase/

This article is focused on the UK...I wonder if not just patients living longer but better tests for mutations and many more mutations uncovered will also increase the population?
In our recent survey, most of you (478 members who took the survey) want self management tools for home health monitoring, suggesting that home care plays a big role in caring for CF.

 

[anien2]

I dont think so. CF population is going to decrease in a few decades. Now with the mutation tests CFers are diagnosed as newborns, that means that many parents can do something to avoid having a second CFer. Also the parents' relatives who are thinking about having kids can take the tests and avoid that situation in case they are carriers, in many places the mutations test is done to every child born, so in a generation every CF mutation carrier will know he or she is.

Less CFers are going to be born, but they are going to live much longer (and better).

 

[welshwitch]

But what about all the CF people diagnosed later in life with more and more variations of CF becoming discovered?