### condition | fibrosis:

Cystic fibrosis
* Some cystic fibrosis causes problems.
* affects children of both sexes.
* affects specific cell type in cystic fibrosis
  - sweat gland secretory coil
* affects the cells that produce mucus, sweat and digestive juices
  - entire body
  - mucus and sweat glands of the body and is caused by a defective gene
* can lead to excessive loss of potassium due to loss in sweat.
* chronic illness involving many body organs.
* common cause of chronic pancreatitis in children
  - genetic disorder in the Caucasian population
* complex, chronic disease.
* condition in which thick mucus is formed in the lungs and breathing passages.
* devastating genetic disease common in people of north- European descent.
* failure in the chloride channels.
* fatal, congenital lung disease.
* genetic defect that causes excessive mucus production that clogs the airways.
* genetic disease that affects the respiratory and digestive systems
  - causes a constant thick mucous in the respiratory system
  - where the child receives a mutant gene from each parent
  - disorder caused by a recessive allele at a single gene
* genetic disorder that fills the lungs with mucus
  - results in a mutated chloride ion channel
  - which is caused by a recessive allele
* has a parallel in resistance to cholera in the population
  - variety of symptoms
* hereditary disorder of the lungs and digestive system.
* is an autosomal recessive disorder that affects multiple organs.
* is an example of a genetic disease
* is an example of an advantageous mutation
  - inherited disease that is caused by a mutation on a gene
  - incurable disease
* is an inherited condition
  - disease affecting many organs
* is an inherited disease that affects the entire body
  - the respiratory and digestivesystems
  - another genetic disease being tested for
* is caused by a defective gene inherited by offspring from each parent
  - that affects multiple aspects of cellular function
  - faulty transferal of salt from within organs and their outer surfaces
  - one faulty gene
  - primarily by a defective chloride-channel gene
  - characterized by abnormally thick mucous that clogs the lungs
  - deemed the most common fatal genetic disease in the United States today
* is diagnosed by testing sweat and by testing lung or pancreas function
  - with a sweat test, which measures the amount of salt in perspiration
  - equally common in boys and girls
  - genetic conditions
  - illnesses
* is inherited as a simple recessive
  - an autosomal recessive trait
  - just one of the hundreds of genetic birth defects that occur each year
  - most common in the Caucasian population
  - no longer only a children's disease
  - one disease that researchers are trying to cure through gene therapy
* is one of the best understood human genetic diseases
  - genetic diseases for which gene therapy has been developed
* is one of the most common autosomal recessive disorders in the United States
  - genetic diseases in Caucasian populations
  - inherited single gene disorders in Caucasians
  - of the serious inherited disorders present in children
* is the deadliest genetic disease in the u-s
  - first genetic disorder discussed
  - leading genetic killer in the United States
* is the most common fatal genetic disease among white children
  - illness among whites
  - hereditary disease in the United States
  - inherited disease in Caucasians
  - inherited disease in the U.S. white population
* is the most common lethal genetic disease in the United States
  - hereditary disorder affecting children and young adults
  - recessive disease in the caucasian population
  - severe inherited disease in whites
  - common, fatal genetic disease in the United States
  - frequent lethal genetic disease of childhood
* is the number one genetic killer of children and young adults in the United States
* life-threatening condition
* lung disease caused by a mutant gene.
* occurs in all ethnic groups
  - most commonly among people of Northern European descent
  - when both genes in the pair have a mutation
* recessive autosomal trait.
* serious disease which is normally fatal in early adulthood.
* severe disorder of the lungs and digestive system.
* takes a toll on families as well.
+ Cystic fibrosis, What CF does to the body: Genetic conditions :: Respiratory Care
  * Cystic fibrosis affects the entire body. Overall the body has trouble moving salt to the parts of the body that need it. Since the body has trouble moving salt, it piles up in places it is not supposed to like the lungs, stomach and intestines.