Cystic fibrosis patients survive longer in EU compared with non-EU countries

Thursday, March 18, 2010 - 17:42 in Health & Medicine

The largest multinational study of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) has shown that patients from EU countries (membership as of 2003) survive longer than those in neighbouring non-EU countries. Crucially, the data show that there are disproportionately fewer then expected CF patients in non-EU countries. The data suggest that had these non-EU countries displayed similar demographic profiles to their EU neighbours, their own CF patient populations would rise by an estimated 84%. These findings are reported in an Article in this week's edition of the Lancet, written by Dr Anil Mehta and Dr Jonathan McCormick and colleagues at the University of Dundee, UK, together with European colleagues.

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