Hey look what the Iowa CF foundation sent me!!

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The February 5 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) reports

on the results of a Cystic Fibrosis Foundation-supported study that confirms

that people with cystic fibrosis (CF) have an imbalance of fatty acids.

These findings may lead to new specialized therapies for people with CF.

You may remember hearing about similar research in 1999, which showed that

CF mice had low levels of arachidonic acid (AA) and high levels of

docosahexaenoic (DHA) acid. The research published in the NEJM provides

further confirmation of this imbalance in humans, and also links it with the

defective CFTR protein. This is significant because, before now, CF

researchers were not able to link the fatty-acid imbalance to CFTR.

It must be cautioned that this research is still in the very early stages

and no studies have yet shown that supplementing DHA would be beneficial for

people with CF. The CF Foundation will continue to fund DHA research and

will move it forward cautiously and expeditiously. For more information,

please refer to CF Foundation's Web site at

http://www.cff.org/content.cfm?contentID=502.

Hamilton

Associate Executive Director

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

1025 Ashworth Road #512

West Des Moines, IA 50265

Phone:

Website: www.cff.org