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About 30,000 Americans, and 70,000 people worldwide, are living with cystic fibrosis, caused by inheriting a flawed CF gene from each parent. The disease causes a sticky mucus to build up in the lungs, clogging them and leading to life-threatening infections.
There is no way to accurately predict how long people with cystic fibrosis will live, as many different factors may affect a personâs health. Severity of disease and time of diagnosis are two such factors.sing data from the CF Foundation Patient Registry, which is gathered from patients treated at CF Foundation-accredited care centers, we do know that more than 40 percent of all people with CF in this country are 18 years or older. In addition, we have calculated the predicted median age of survival.