About Cystic Fibrosis
Cystic Fibrosis is the UK’s most common life threatening inherited disease affecting over 8,000 people in the UK.
- Over 2 million people in the UK carry the gene that causes Cystic Fibrosis that is 1 in 25 of the population.
- If 2 two carriers have a child, the baby has a 1 in 4 chance of having Cystic Fibrosis.
- Cystis Fibrosis affects the internal organs especially the lungs and digestive tract causing the body to produce thick secretions, making it hard to breath and digest food.
- Each week, 5 babies are born with Cystic Fibrosis.
- Each week three young lives are lost to Cystic Fibrosis.