American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 143, No. 10: 1007-1017
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Determinants of Mortality from Cystic Fibrosis in Canada, 19701989
1Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, University of Toronto and the Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto Ontario, Canada
2Department of Statistical Science, University College London London, England
Reprint requests to Dr. Mary Corey, Division of Gastroenterology, The Hospital For Sick Children, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1X8.
The frequency, prevalence, and mortality patterns of cystic fibrosis were analyzed in 3,795 patients documented in the Canadian Patient Data Registry in 19701989. Cystic fibrosis frequency in the 19701979 birth cohort was virtually identical to the commonly quoted 1 in 2,500. In 19851989, median survival age was 36.7 years for males and 27.8 years for females, compared with 26.6 and 19.7, respectively, in 19701974. However, there were significant regional differences when Canada was divided into the four regions, East, Quebec, Ontario, and West. In Quebec, patients were younger at diagnosis and until recently had greater mortality than patients in other regions, which suggests more severe disease; dramatically improved survival in the 1980s coincided with a change from a restricted fat diet to a high fat diet. Improved survival in Ontario in the 1970s accompanied this change in dietary therapy, which may also account for good survival throughout the study period in the East. The West showed gradually improving survival, similar to that reported in other parts of the world. Proportional hazards analysis showed pulmonary function to be the best predictor of survival. Poorer survival in females was associated with poorer weight, but the interrelation of declining pulmonary function, weight maintenance, sex, and mortality requires further study. The effect of pulmonary colonization with Pseudomonas aeruginosa was confounded with degree of pulmonary dysfunction, but colonization with Burkholderia cepacia (previously Pseudomonas cepacia) was associated with increased mortality at all levels of pulmonary function.
cystic fibrosis; proportional hazards models; survival analysis
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